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REPORT — 1856. 



Table 



Parishes and Towns. 



In 1845. 



Lapps. 



Infixed 

 habita 

 tions. 



Skyaervo , 

 Alten .... 



Loppen 



Hammerfest Parish. 

 Hammerfest Town.. 



Kistrand "I 

 Koutokeino J 



Lebesby 1 

 Naesseby J ' 



Vardo Parish . 

 Vardo Town , 



Vadso Parish , 



Vadso Town , 



1447 

 1069 



550 

 1011 



664 



919 



4 

 1093 



No- 

 madic. 



1026 



116 



93 



Total. 



1447 

 1069 



550 

 1011 



1690 



1035 



4 

 1186 



Finns. 



426 

 863 



50 



118 

 154 



205" 



31- 



129 

 134 



In the year 



Lapps. 



Infixed 

 habita- 

 tions. 



1620 

 1019 



569 

 1166 



763 

 122 

 233 



1303 



5 



564 

 3 



No- 

 madic. 



405 



705 



20 



85 



110 



Total. 



1620 

 1019 



1388 



65 

 5 



674 



3 



Finns. 



858 

 1107 



83 



14 

 14 



259 



353 



Landed 

 proprie- 

 tors. 



rL.162 

 IF. 84 

 JL. 60 

 IF. 1 



"L.154 

 F. 51 



L. 8 

 F.— 

 'L.236 

 F. 14 



F." 10 



Remarks. 



1. In comparing the printed account of the Census of 1845 with this paper, it will 

 be seen that I have omitted altogether that cluster of Finns who are living in Chris- 

 tiania Stift, in the Glommen valley (Solbr). The reason of this is, that their dena- 

 tionalization and amalgamation with the Norwegians has made such progress, that it 

 has become utterly impossible to distinguish them ethnologically by that administra- 

 tive machinery employed in taking a general census ; except a few old men and 

 women, they all understand and speak Norse, and the young people do not even use 

 the language of their ancestors among themselves. What has been enumerated by 

 the parish officers, is then rather the population of that peculiar district (Finskogen), 

 originally inhabited by Finns, than a body of true and unmixed Finns. This colony, 

 that is about 250 years old, may now be considered practically extinct as a peculiar 

 nationality, by a transformation into a population that could not be distinguished from 

 the Norwegian but by investigations into the pedigree and the language of each single 

 inhabitant. 



2. The separate and recognized Tshudic population of Norway, then, now com- 

 mences to the north of the Dovre range of mountains at Boros, and is noted down 

 from south to north. 



3. In these districts of Trondhyem, Nordland, and Finmark, will be observed 

 several discrepancies between the enumerations of 1845 and 1855. These differences 

 are explainable by the greater accuracy of the last census ; the roaming and wander- 

 ing habits of the Lapps, and the continual immigration of Finns from the Russian ter- 

 ritory into Norway, that are going on to the north of Tromso. 



The census gives no means of distinguishing between the increase of this Finnic 

 population, that is owing to the new settlers, and to an increase of births. 



The Lapps do not change their domicile in this way, but many of them live periodi- 

 cally on both sides of the Kiblen range in Sweden and Norway. This circumstance 

 is stated as the cause of the census not being completed in due time in the parishes 

 of Selbo, Snasen, and Vefsen. 



