GENERAL REMARKS 
more e a lily gained, and longer retained when delivered by word 
ol mouth, than when communicated in writing. It would feem 
that the ear is lefs diftrafted than the eye ; that the intenfenefs of 
the mind is greater in hearing than in feeing. The miffionary 
adds his fervent wifh, that his fellow-labourers in this vineyard of 
divine truth, would qualify themfelves for the work, by acquiring 
a thorough knowledge of the Lapland tongue, fo as to preach 
and pray in it to the Laplanders, as not many of the men have 
a knowledge of the Daniffi language, further than the ufe of a 
few words and phrafes, which occur in the courfe of traffic ; 
and of the women, not one is the leaf; acquainted with it. 
The Laplanders hold the miffionaries fent amongft them in the 
greateft efteem, and ffiew them much refpedl. They falute them 
with great reverence whenever they meet them, and give them 
precedence upon all occafions. They make them frequent pre- 
fents of what are reckoned in Lapland peculiar dainties, fuch as 
frozen rein-deer’s milk, with the tongue and marrow of that ani¬ 
mal. They are very attentive to keeping holy the fabbath-day ; 
they abftain from curfing and fwearing, which are common vices 
among the inhabitants of Norway, and they lead a religious and 
moral life. Whoredom and adultery are fins rarely committed ; 
and the crime of theft is little or not at all known amongft them ; 
fo that locks or bolts, for the fecurity of property in Lapland, are 
entirely unneccflary. Norway fwarms with beggars, but begging 
is unknown amongft the Laplanders. If any one, from age or 
infirmity, fhould chance to be in want, he finds his neceflaries 
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