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tery and parafitical praife are but little in fafhion, and confe- 
quently we did not fufpedl the parfon of diffimulation, or that he 
was not perfectly fatisfied as to the good qualities he afcribed to 
that beverage. 
I fhall now lay before the reader what information I was able 
to colled, refpeding this village and the manners of its inhabi¬ 
tants. The population of the whole parifh confifts of four hun¬ 
dred fouls, difperfed over a furface of nearly two hundred fquare 
miles. The inhabitants are all of them Finlandifli emigrants, who 
came and fettled here, and who confequently fpeak the language 
of Finland. All travellers who have vifited this country have 
named the people Laplanders; and I have in fome degree con¬ 
formed myfelf, in the courfe of this work, to the fame prejudice, 
but I have diftinguifhed them by the appellation of Finlandifli 
Laplanders, or in other words, Finlanders fettled in Lapland. 
Their habits and manner of life are nearly the fame with thofe 
of the natives of Finland ; and, indeed, there is no difference but 
what is produced by climate and their topographical fituation. It 
it very remarkable, however, that the Finlanders fettled here, 
like the paftoral Laplanders, know nothing either of poetry and 
mufic, or mufical inftruments. Surrounded with lakes and rivers 
abounding in fifli, they take little concern in agriculture, but de¬ 
pend chiefly for fubfiftence on the precarious refource of fifhing, 
or on the Hill more uncertain fruits of the chafe. The qualities, 
as among all favage nations, in the higheft eflimation in the male 
fex, are bodily flrength and activity. They enjoy the appetite of 
love. 
