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“ wont to eat the greater part of the offerings themfelves; fo 
u alfo did the Laplanders in facrificing to their idols—they con- 
“ fumed the flefh themfelves, leaving nothing to their divinities 
“ but the bare bones : it was the men who were the cooks among 
“ the Jews; fo alfo it is the men, not the women, who are the 
“ cooks among the Laplanders. Some of the Jewifh laws re- 
“ fpedting the phyfical condition of women were anciently ob- 
“ ferved alfo by the Laplanders.” 
The miffionary obferves, that there are many coincidences in 
the manners and modes of life of the Laplanders and the ancient 
Scythians. The garments of the Laplanders, like thofe of the 
Scythians, confill in the fkins of wild bcafts. The Scythians, like 
the Laplanders, negleding agriculture, had no fixed habitations, 
but wandered about with their wives and children from place to 
place, and derived their fubfiftence from their herds of cattle. 
Our author alfo remarks very ftriking affinities between the lan¬ 
guages of ancient Scythia and Lapland : for example, thundery 
which the Scythians called terami, the Laplanders exprefs by 
tiermes. 
The miffionary has nothing to objedt to the general opinion 
that the Laplanders were originally of the fame race with the 
Swedifh Finns or Finlanders; an opinion founded on a ftriking 
ftmilitude of names and other circumftances. But, after granting 
that the Laplanders and Finns may probably have been once the 
fame people, and that the marks of difcrimination now exifting 
between them may have been gradually brought on by the courfe 
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