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VII. A Letter to James Theobald, giving 
an Account of the Norwegian Finns, or Fin- 
landers, by Peter Kinck, 
S 1% 
I Nclos’d 'I fend you an Account, the beft I can colled, 
both from Perfons of Veracity, as well as my own 
Obfervations, made in feveral Years Refidence in the 
Neighbourhood of the People j which if it will be any 
Entertainment to you to perufe, will fufiiciently an* 
fwer the Pains of tranfcribing. 
In the Kingdom of Norway^ in thofe Confines which 
border upon Sweden^ live a Sort of People call'd Finns^. 
whofe Habitation is in the Woods and Forrefts, and 
■who are fome of them under the ^anijh^ fome under 
the Swedijh Jurifdidion, of whofe Original, Nature,, 
and Manner of Life, I (hall give fome Account. And 
I. Of thdt Original, which horn Swedijh Fin* 
to^/Eaftward of the Sea of Bothnia, from whence by 
Hunger, Times of ,F^^^ine, and Want of the Ne- 
celfaries of Life, they formerly tranfported themfelves 
into Sweden and Norway, where in the Forrefts and 
Wildernefles they got Leave to build and inhabit* For 
the common People of Finland are ftrong and hardy, 
and by Confequence fruitful and long-liv’d. Finland 
formerly was not fo well cultivated as at prefent it is^ 
fo that the Produce of the Earth was not fufficient to 
fubfift the Numbers of People born there •, infomuch 
that Abundance of them (as the Qoths^ and Vandals) 
were 
