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barbarous conquered. “The tomb had been broken open by the country people, 
and whatfoever it might have contained was ftolen away and loft *. 
Within the 4ré?e circle, begins Fizmark, a narrow traét, which winds about the 
fhores eaftwards, and bends into the /Vhite Sea: a country divided between Nor- 
way and Ruffia. The view from the feais a flat, bounded, a little inland, by a chain 
of lofty mountains covered with fnow. The depth of water off the fhore is froma 
hundred to a hundred and fifty fathoms +. The inhabitants quit their hovels in 
winter, and return to them in the fummer: and, in the middle of that feafon, even 
the A/pine Laplanders vifit thefe parts for the fake of fifhing; and, like the antient 
Scythians, remove with their tents, their herds, and furniture, and return to their 
mountains in autumn. Some of them, from living near the fea, have long been 
called Sie Finni, and Soe Lappernes. 
In this country begins inftantly anewraceof men. Their ftature is from four 
to four feet and a half: their hair fhort, black, and coarfe : eyes tran{verfely nar- 
tow: irides black: their heads great: cheek-bones high: mouth wide: lips 
thick : their chefts broad: waifts lender: {kin fwarthy : fhanks fpindle||. From 
ufe, they run up rocks like goats, and fwarm trees like fquirrels: are fo ftrong in 
their arms that they can draw a bow which a ftout Norwegian. can hardly bend ; 
yet lazy even to torpidity, when not incited by neceffity; and pufillanimous and 
nervous to an hyfterical degree. With a few variations, and very few exceptions,. 
are the inhabitants of all the 4ré?ic coafts of Europe, Afia, and America. They are 
nearly a diftin& fpecies in minds and bodies, and not to be derived from the ad- 
jacent nations, or any of their better-proportioned neighbors. 
The feas and rivers of Finmark abound with fifh. The Alten of Weft Finmark, 
aftera gentle courfe through mountains and forefts, forms a noble cataract, which 
tumbles down an. immenfe rock into a fine bafon, the receptacle of numbers of 
veffels which refort here to fifh or traffic for Salmon §. The Tana, and the Kola 
of the extreme north fwarm with them. In the Alten they are taken by the natives 
in weirs built after the Norwegian model; and form, with the merchants of Bergen, 
a great article of commerce. Thefe fifheries are far from recent: that on the 
Kola was noted above two centuries ago for the vaft concourfe of Englifh and Dutch, 
for the fake of the fifh-oil and Salmon q. : 
The moft northern fortrefs in the world, and of unknown antiquity ++, is ard- 
* See Mr. Forffenius’s curious differtation on this antiquity, printed at Lund, 1780. 
T Auth. Fenkinfon’s Voy. in Hackluyt, i. 311. } Leems, 169. || Scheffer, 12, and Liste 
Faun, Suecet. —-§ Leems, 342,  Q Hackluyt,i. 416. ++ Torfari Hit, Norwegia, i, 96. 
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