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fpccl, and feems exprefllve of the flrength of their intellectual 

 faculties. Along the coaft the people, for the generality, are not 

 fo tall and robuft, but on the contrary more corpulent and phleg- 

 matic, and have a rounder vifage. This difference is obferved by the 

 officers in the militia, according to the federal diflricls of which 

 their men are natives, and when they draw up their regiments, 

 confiffing of both forts, they can pretty well guefs to which clafs 



each belongs % 



That the flrft inhabitants of Norway had fome of the giant- 

 kind amongft them, is afferted by Thormod. Torfams, who is 

 not very credulous in other refoecls, in his Hifh Norv. pi i. I. iii Torfaeus, s 



* '*■';'* r opinion of a 



cap. 3 be 4, p. 117, His words are, " Edda nihil operofius s iant - kind - 

 tradit, quam quas Afis tranfmigrantibus cum gigantibus iftis inter- 

 cefferunt. Sed & hifloria Hervoriava, cap. 1. conceptis verbis 

 opponit iflorum gigantum nomina, qui inter primos feptentrio- 

 nem incoluerant— Primos Danias incolas Saxo Grammaticus gigan- 

 tes, gigantes Arngrimus primos Norvegia? agnofcit : illos autem 

 pofteros fuiffe & reliquias Cananasorum agro Pakftino, a Joflia 

 & Calebo, divinis aufpiciis in Pakftinam moventibus, expulforum, 

 circa annum mundi 2506. Hancque orbis plagam, ad ea ufque 

 tempera, aut foriitan diutius, prorfus incultam manfiffe exiftimat, 

 Genebrandi authoritatem allegans . . . cui licet Pontano vel maxime 

 repugnante, Hift. Dan. p. 55. fuffragatur Rabbi David Kimki ad 

 finem Abdiae, qui Cananaeos ex agro Pakftino ab Hebrasis eje&os, 

 in Illyricum & Panoniam migraffe tradit, citante Bodino. MetL 

 Hillor. cap. iv. Accedit Meffenius, qui' tomo I. Scandias illuft. a 

 Jofua Pakftina ejedos Scandiam intrafTe exiftimat . . . Celeberri- 

 mus antiquitat. feptentrionalium profeffor, Olaus Verelius, folos 

 gigantes hunc tra&um quondam incoluiffe, creditu arduum judi- 

 cat, adje&a ratione his verbis : not. ad cap. I. hiflor. HerVoriana^, 

 p. 11. Neque enim, inquit, e terra hie potius quam alibi prog- 

 nati funt, fi verb aliunde advenerunt, aliorum injuriis hie pulE 

 dicentur & vero, proinde fimilius eft, gigantes hie quondam 



* L'air & la terre influe beaucoup fur la forme des hommes, des anirnaux, des 

 pi antes : Qu'on examine dans le meme canton, les hommes, qui habitent les terres 

 eleyees, commes les cotaux, ou le defllis des collines, & qu'on les compare avec ceux 

 qui occupent le milieu des vallees voifines, on trouvera que les premiers font agiles, 

 difpqs, bienfaits, fpirituels ; & que les femmes y font communement jolies ; au lieu 

 que dans le plat pays; ou la terre eft groffe, l'air epais, & l'eau moins'pure, les pay- 

 fans font growers, pefans, malfaits, ftupides, & les payfannes routes hides. Buffori 

 hift. naturelle, torn. iii. p. 203. 



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