CONCERNING LAPLAND. 
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Auft 
- 
1 
Gut 
6 
Gouft 
- 
2 
Zhicezhia 
7 
Golm 
- 
3 
Kautze - 
8 
Nielja 
- 
4 
Autze 
9 
Vit 
- 
5 
Laage 
10 
It appears to be a Angularity in the language of Lapland, that 
the names of fluids, metals, minerals, grain, herbs and fruits, are 
all of them exprefled only in the plural number. It abounds in 
diminutives, which contribute to give that language both grace 
and energy of expreffion. 
When a Laplander addrefles a Norwegian peafant, he fays, 
pajjevelje ! that is, my companion ! my friend ! If a woman, paf- 
feoodbba! that is, holy filler ! 
The rein-deer, held in the higheft eflimation, and which are 
fuppofed to be of the greatefl value among the Laplanders, are 
fuch as are caflrated. Thefe excel the others both in fize and 
fatnefs, and are of extreme utility and advantage to their owners. 
Hence fuch phrafes as this : fpeaking of any one whom they think 
worthy of the very higheft degree of praife, they fay, uartzejetz, 
or, he or Jhe is abfolutely a caftrated rein-deer. When a certain 
Laplandifh and ruftic officer of the peace, or magiflrate, in the 
Norfk called Jermand , of the name of John Porfanger, was in an 
elevated and boafling mood, he w 7 as wont to exclaim, Heerge 
zhiouga, I am a cajirated rein-deer. 
Of a pregnant woman near her time, they commonly fay, NiJJ'on 
la kietziembeii in, that is, being interpreted literally, The woman 
is 
