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The heat may feem intolerable, amounting to ';o° of 75 0 
of Celfuis, or from 158° to 167° of Fahrenheit’s fcale. 
. In the bath, they rub themfelves vigoroufly, and lath 
every part of the body with twigs of birch ; and often, 
when they come out, they will (land in the cold air, 
or roll themfelves in the fnow. Yet all this is attended 
with neither danger nor inconvenience! The Finns are 
attached to poetry ; and they have a fort of improvifatori , 
who recite verfes in public. Thefe verfes are termed 
runic, and confift of eight trochees with alliterative rhymes. 
Being dill deeply tinftured with fuperdition, the Finns 
have many runic verfes to which they afcribe healing 
powers; and thefe charms, fly led fanat, are much em¬ 
ployed by itinerant empirics and ignorant old women, 
though the clergy have laudably exerted themfelves to 
difcourage this praftice. 
Finland was formerly a kingdom, and independent; at 
prefent it is an archduchy, and annexed to Sweden. In 
the twelfth century, great pains were taken for the con- 
verfion of the Finns to Chridianity ; and Henry, who was 
biftiop of Upfal in 1157, fell a martyr to his zeal in car¬ 
rying on that pious undertaking. That prelate founded 
tlie fird cathedral in Finland, at Randamoki; but the 
fee was afterwards removed to Abo, which lies in the 
neighbourhood of the former. Martin Skytte and Peter 
Serkilar were the fird preachers of Luther’s doflrine in 
this country. Finland is divided into feven provinces, 
Finland Proper, Aland, Ead Bothnia, Tavadia, or Ta- 
vadland, Nyland, Savolax, and Kymmenegards-Lehn. 
FIN'LAND PROPER, a province of Sweden, fitnated 
on the fouthern part of Finland, having the gulf of Fin¬ 
land on the fouth, and the gulf of Bothnia on the wed; 
about 160 miles in length, and 100 in breadth. The foil is 
fertile, and the land, especially in the fouthern parts, bears 
good corn, hay, and hops. It has feveral fine lakes and 
rivers, which abound in fiffi, and on a part of the coad is a 
rich pearl fifhery, where pearls of an extraordinary fize are 
found, for the mod part fingle, but fometimes a cluder 
of two or three pearls are found in the fame (hell. The 
inhabitants of this country fubfid by agriculture, grazing, 
fiffiing, and making wooden-ware. Their principal com¬ 
merce is in grain, meal, cattle, butter, talc, linen, yarn- 
dockings, &c. Abo is the capital. 
FIN'LESS, adj. Wanting fins : 
He angers me 
With telling of the moldwarp and the ant, 
And of a dragon and a finlefs fifh. Shakcfpcare. 
FIN'LIKE, adj. Formed in imitation of fins : 
In fliipping fuch as this, the Irifh kern 
And untaught Indian, on the dream did glide ; 
Ere fharp-keel’d boats to dem the Hood did learn, 
Or Jinlike oars did fpread from either fide. Dryden. 
FIN'MARK, a province of Norway, bounded on the 
north by the Northern Ocean, on the ead by the Northern 
Ocean and the territories of Ruflia, on the fouth by Svve- 
didi Lapland, and on the wed by the Northern Ocean. 
There are neither towns nor villages, though the coad is 
pretty well inhabited. The inhabitants fubfid chiefly 
by fiffiing, and the bed falmon of any in Norway are 
caught in this province. In dimmer time the fun con¬ 
tinues above the horizon for fome weeks. Finmark has 
a particular governor, regider, and judge. It is divided 
into Wed Finmark, which includes twelve churches and 
chapels, ferved by five preachers; and Ead Finmark, in 
which are nine churches and chapels, ferved. by three 
preachers. 
FINN, a river of Ireland, which rifes from a lake of 
the fame name in the county of Donegal, and runs into 
Lake Foyle, near Strabane. 
FIN'NED, adj. Having broad edges fpread out on 
either fide.—They plow up the turf with a broad finned, 
plough. Mortimer. 
FINNERY'DIA, a town of Sweden, in the province 
F I R 
of Wed Gothland: thirty-four miles fouth-wed of Ore- 
bro, and eighty-fix north-eaft of Uddevalla. 
FINNIN'GIA, or Fenningia, in ancient geography, 
the peninfula now called Finland, a province of Sweden, 
Fermi, or Finni , the people ; whofe ferocity was extraor¬ 
dinary, poverty extreme, herbs their food, (kins their co¬ 
vering, and the ground their couch: regardlefs of man 
and of gods, they attained to a very difficult thing, not to 
have a fingle wiih to form. Tacitus. 
FIN'NIS BAY, a bay of Scotland, on the ead coad of 
the illand of Harris. Lat. 57. 53. N. Ion. 3.42. W. Edin¬ 
burgh . 
FIN'NY, adj. Furniflied with fins; formed for the ele¬ 
ment of water : 
New herds of beads he fends the plains to (hare ; 
And to their oozy beds the finny fiffi repair. Dryden. 
With hairy fpringes we the birds betray ; 
Slight lines of hair furprize the finny prey. Pope. 
F I'NO, a fmall ifland in the Baltic, near the ead coaft 
01 Sweden. Lat. 38. 9. N. Ion. 16. 42. E. Greenwich. 
FINO'CHIO, f. A fpecies of fennel. See the article 
Anethum. 
FINO'W, a town of Germany, in the circle of Upper 
Saxony, and Uckermark of Brandenburg : thirty.two 
miles north-ead of Berlin, and twenty-eight north-wed 
of Cudrin. 
I IN'SPANG, a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Ead Gothland : fifteen miles north-wed of Norukioping. 
FINSTERWAL'DA, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of Upper Saxony, and marggraviate of Meilfen : two 
miles fouth-ead of Lauendein. 
i FIN'TEL, a town of Germany, in the circle of Wed- 
plialia, and county of Verden : ten miles north-north-ead 
of Rotenburg. 
FIN'TOED, adj. Palrnipedous; having a membrane 
between the toes.—Such creatures as are whole footed, 
o rfintoed, viz. fome birds or quadrupeds, are naturally 
directed to go into the water and fwim there. Ray. 
FINVAR'RA POINT, a cape of Ireland, in the county 
of Clare, (ituated in Galway bay, five miles ead from 
Blackhead : eleven miles foulh-fouth-wed from Galway. 
FION'DA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia, the 
fee of a Greek bifliop, on the gulf of Satalia, very much 
gone to decay : twenty-eight miles fouth of Satalia. 
FIO'NIA. See Funen. 
FIO'RA, a river of Italy, which runs into the fea, be¬ 
low Montalto, in the duchy of Cadro. 
FIORENZUO'LA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of 
Tufcany, fitnated in a .valley among the Appenines, on 
the (ite of the ancient Fidentia : twenty-two miles north 
of Florence, and twenty-three fouth of Bologna. 
TIORENZUO'LA, a town of Italy, in the duchy of 
Parma, on the Larda : twenty miles north-wed of Parma, 
and eleven ead of Piacenza. 
FIORLI'TA, a fmall idand of the Mediterranean, at 
the entrance of the gulf of Tarento, near the coad of Na¬ 
ples : eleven miles from Alefzano. 
FIORZABAD', a town of Hindoodan, in the province 
of Agra: dfteen miles ead of Agra. 
FIPPLE, f. [ fibula , Lat.] A dopper.—You mud 
know, that in recorders, which go with a gentle breath, 
the concave of the pipe, were it not for the fipple, that 
draineth the air much more than the Ample concave, 
would yield no found. Bacon. 
FIR, J. \_fyrr , Welfii ; pupil. Sax. fyr, Dan.] The 
tree of which deal-boards are made. See Pinus.—-H e 
covered the floor of the houfe with planks of fir. 1 Kings. 
The fpiring fir and dately box. Pope. 
FIR-CROWNED, adj. Covered with firs : 
No fir-crown'd hills could give delight, 
No palace pleafe mine eye. Shenjlone. 
FIR-TREE,/. The tree called fir.—Yea, the fir-trees 
rejoice at thee, and the Cedars of Lebanon, lfaiak xiv. 
FI'RABUSj 
