i 4 o GENERAL REMARKS 
had met with in thofe authors, in the courfe of his extenfive read¬ 
ing. 
The mitfionary’s book is publifhed, very properly, in the Danifh 
language, as well as in the Latin tranllation. For the barbarous 
Latin that the tranflator, though a great mafter of the Latin 
tongue, is obliged to ufe from the novelty of the matter (which 
even Cicero or Casfar could not have expreiTed in pure latinity), 
would in many inftances be unintelligible to good latinifls, if it 
were not elucidated by the addition of the Danifh. 
The Laplanders, of whom an account is given by the miffionary 
Leems, are the inhabitants of Finmark, making part of the pre¬ 
fecture of Drontheim, and belonging to the crown of Denmark. 
And thefe are faid to differ in no refpcCt in their manners, cuf- 
toms, and language, from the Laplanders belonging to Ruffia and 
Sweden, and manifeftly to be one and the fame people, though 
under different governments. In following our author through his 
w 7 ork, I fhall, in fome inftances, go over the fame ground on 
which 1 have already flightly touched. But,' wdiere 1 do fo, the 
circumflantiality of the miffionary wall afford a fufficient degree 
of novelty and intereft, to prevent the unpleafant fatigue of repe¬ 
tition. 
Some writers have defcribed the Laplanders, not only as dirty, 
indolent, and immoderately addicted to fpirituous liquors, but as 
a libidinous and cowardly race of people, covetous of money, and 
knavifli in the acquifition of it. The miffionary Leems fhew 7 s a 
very laudable partiality for thofe people, w T ho have been the objedl 
of 
