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GENERAL REMARKS 
CONCERNING 
LAPLAND. 
SECTION I. 
Of fome Writers who have given Accounts of Lapland , efpecially the 
MiJJionary Canute Leems— The Author s Views in this part of the 
Work explained. 
TF a traveller were to confine his attention and his narrative to 
the particulars that actually meet his own eye, his difcoveries 
would be bounded by a narrow horizon, and even in that compafs 
his information would often be very imperfeCt. The origin, rea- 
fons, and various connections of things are frequently to be learned 
from others. It is therefore his bufinefs, not only to converfe as 
much as poffible with the natives, and all thofe who can afford in¬ 
telligence, but alfo to confult written records. To fwell a jour¬ 
nal with extracts from books within every one’s reach, and which 
all may underftand, is a common but not a very equitable prac- 
Vol. II. T tice. 
