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gentleman travelling in thofe parts, for the improvement of na¬ 
tural hi {lory. This refpe£lable clergyman had gone out of the 
houfe a few minutes before our arrival. Finding his wife to be a 
very intelligent, as well as a civilized and well-bred woman, we 
put feveral queftions to her refpeefting the population and natural 
productions of that part of the country, on which fhe produced 
her hufband’s manufeript, elucidating the very fubjecls concern¬ 
ing which we defired to obtain fome information. This manu¬ 
feript was divided into five chapters ; the iff. on the population 
of the parifh. of Enontekis ; 2d. on ecclefiaflical affairs ; 3 d. 011 
the colonies eflablifhed there ; 4 th. on the nomadical or paftoral 
Laplanders; and the 5 th. on natural productions. I made fome 
extracts from the manufeript, which 1 fhall communicate to the 
reader. 
The population of the village of Enontekis, and of the whole 
parifh, confifls of nine hundred and thirty fouls ; of which two 
hundred and fifty-eight are colonifls, or fixed Laplanders ; and 
fix hundred and feventy-two are nomades, or wandering families,- 
who live in the mountains taking care of the rein-deer. 
Concerning the yearly income of his living, and the rents re¬ 
ceived from this parifh, the minifler is filent: but he {peaks much 
of the far-fpread renown of the church of Enontekis; extended 
even to the moft remote regions of the North. The Norwegians, 
he fays, when they are going to undertake any long and dangerous 
journey, are in the habit of fending to the church of Enontekis, 
a candle to be burned there, or fome other fmall prefent, by way 
of 
