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hair inwards. The Women’s apparel is not very different
from that of the men.
It is faid that the natives of Lapland are great cowards,
and for that reafon, the Swedes never employ them as Sol-
diers. How unlike are thefe to the brave Highlanders of
Scotland, whofe courage and intrepidity are as immov-
able as their mountains ! *
* Extreme cold has diminifhed the Stature and congealed the faculties of
the Laplanders ; and the Arctic tribes, alone among the Sons of men, are
ignorant of War, and uncon{cious of human blood : an happy Ignorance, if
reafon and Virtue were the Guardians of their Peace! +
Gibbon’s Hilt. vol. 5. page gsr. quarto.
+ Boffon, Hift. Naturelle, tom. vy. p. 6. in ramo. Guflavus Adolphus at-
fempted, without fuccefs, to form a Regiment of Laplanders. Grotins fays
ef thefe Arctic Tribes, Arma arcus et pharetra, fed adverfus feras, (An-
nal, ] ry. p. 236.) and attempts after the manner of Tacitus to yarnith with
Philofophy their brutal Ignorance,
Altez
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