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overgrown with fhaggy hair, like wild beafts. Others have given 
them but one eye: but thefe are fables which thofe authors feem 
to have borrowed from Herodotus * and Pliny, and in no way ap¬ 
plicable either to the Laplanders, or any race of people upon the 
face of the earth. Others again have afferted, with a greater ap¬ 
pearance of truth and juflice, that they had from nature an offen- 
five fmell. It mull indeed be acknowledged, that there is a cer¬ 
tain unfavoury ranknefs which attends the Laplander, more than 
is commonly found with the inhabitants of other countries; but 
this is not fo much to be imputed to his natural temperament as 
to his mode of life, dwelling as he does in a hut or tent, in the 
midft of a conftant fmoke, and clothed in a drefs which has im¬ 
bibed quantities of dirt, greafe, and train oil. 
* The origin of this flory of people overgrown with hair, who had but one 
eye, like the Cyclops, is as old or older than the time when Herodotus wrote his 
hiftory. He fpeaks of certain Cyclops called Anmafpi, inhabiting the northern 
parts, who waged perpetual war with dragons or griffins, in poffeffion of mines of 
gold. The notion of thefe Cyclops is fuppofed to have arifen from the interpre¬ 
tation of the Scythian word anmafpos , which fignifies one eye. It has been 
thought by fome that the Anmafpi were a Tartar nation, into whofe country the 
Chinefe (whofe enfign is a dragon or griffin) made frequent inroads for the pur- 
pofe of feeking for gold, which they carried away with them. As to the pecu¬ 
liarity of the natives of Lapponia in refpedt to hairinefs, it has been fuppofed to 
allude to their wearing furs in the winter for an outer garment. Herodotus like- 
wife fpeaks of men who, at particular feafons, were changed into wolves. This 
certainly had no other foundation than in the depraved fancies or impofitions of 
forcerers, who pretend to a power of transforming themfelves into wolves, and 
perhaps, to carry on the deception, difguifed themfelves in the fkins of thofe ani¬ 
mals. This belief has remained to later ages, and has left its name behind it, 
being called werewolf, by the Germans wahrwolf, and by the French loupgarcu. 
The 
