CONCERNING LAPLAND. 
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of his pious labours, and among whom, according to his own 
account, he has paffed many days of hardfhip, for the purpofe of 
pointing out to them the road to failvation. He does not deny all 
that has been afferted in their disfavour, or rather, his mode of 
vindication, thews, that however they may be improved in their 
manners, they were not always irreproachable. As to their inor¬ 
dinate paffion for intoxication, whether by means of fpirituous 
liquors or tobacco, he acknowledges and explains it, though even 
here his propenfity to fhade and extenuate their failings is ob¬ 
vious. 
From what I have faid concerning the affifiance of which I 
fhall avail myfclf in the following account of Lapland, the reader 
is not to imagine, that he has to expedl nothing farther in the 
fubfequent pages than a mere tranflation of the book alluded to. 
On the contrary, I have only felecled from it fuch information 
as 1 found interefling and applicable to the prefent Rate of that 
country. This is interfperfed with my own remarks ; and I have 
fhewn in which points I differ from the ftatements of the author. 
Some of his affertions, which were not confirmed by my own ob- 
fervation, I have not introduced : and, laftly, I have inferted large 
communications* on the natural hiflory of Lapland, accompanied 
by fome plates; which, I truft, will be received as an acceptable 
prefent, by thofe who cultivate that important fcience. It would, 
* Chiefly what is faid on the birds, and other animals of Lapland, and the 
entire (edtions on infers, botany, and mineralogy ; alfo the laft ledtion, which 
contains fome general obfervations relative to meteorology and natural hiflory. 
however. 
