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their names 5 oF which he gives many inftances : So the 
naiie of Magog or Mangog^ in the Swedi/h Tongue, fignifi'vS 
a Valiant ana Stout Man 5 from whence many other places 
in Sweden have their name?.- So he fays, Mejhecus^ another 
of the Suns of Japheth^ was the Progenitor ot t\\Q Fin-- 
landersy who are moft Northerly, whence they are ftill 
called Mefar. As for the name of FinUnders^ they have it 
from the Swedes ^ and he mentions (everal places inF/W^^ J 
that have their name from M$Jhecmi And fo from other 
Sons of Jap/jetk other places in Smdm have their names. 
He tells us, Greece^ Afia^ India and Mgypt took the 
word Pygmy from their Country, chiefly from the Finland^ 
ers '^ for thefe and t\\Q Swedes call Boys from the 7th or 
8th to the nth or 12th year Vyckior and foik^r^ and Girls 
Vigor and Pik^r 3 and Men by the Swedes are called Maw^ 
by ihQ Finlanders Mids : Hence therefore Pjgman^ or 
Pjigmias, or Paikmias Ggoify one in Stature a Boy, but in 
Age a Man 3 and fo from the Lapla^uhrs and Finlanders^ 
the word ni/>'fx«/®' came to the Greeks* 
Heobferves, that as no Nation in the World has been 
fo prone to Parables and obfcure defcription of things, as 
the Swedes fo they are now moft tenacious of their an« 
eient Cuftom, which, both a common Book fill'd with 
nigmatical queftions, and in a manner all the EpJtkalama 
that come forth, fufficiently prove. 
He tells us from Scroder^ that Magog was the Inveiiter 
of the jR^^e/ ^ and fays there is no room for doubting, 
but Atims^ Atlas and Magog were one and the fame perfon. 
And after having given a large account of the extent of 
the ancient Dominions belonging to the Northern Inha* 
bitants, he fays, as for the Sons and Grandchildren of 
Magog, or their firft Atlas^ thdr Names writers do not 
well agree ^ yet in the fixth Gene •vtiion they do much 
differ : For he that by Hefiod and ApjUodorus is called Cce- 
Uusy is the fame that his Country- men and the Jpnden 
