CONCERNING LAPLAND. 
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offered, by pouring it on the ground within the part of the tent 
where their cattle were folded. On any change of habitation, an 
offering was made of milk to conciliate the favour of the deity 
who was the guardian of the place. 
They alfo had recourfe to facrifices upon occafion of any epi¬ 
demic diforder difcovering itfelf among them, or any diflemper 
breaking out amongft their cattle. Such offerings were ufually 
made when they went upon hunting or fifhing parties, or on their 
return from them if fuccefsful. Horns, and other parts of the 
rein-deer are found in places, fuppofed to have been depofited 
there by the Laplanders who have experienced good fortune in the 
chace, as offerings to the deity of the place. 
Several mountains and a number of rocks were efteemed by 
the Laplanders as facred, and held in great veneration. They are 
diftinguiflied by the general name of pajje-warcl , which means holy 
places, and were formerly places of facrifice and religious worfhip. 
It is to be obferved, that thefe rocks and mountains were remark¬ 
able for the Angularity of their fhape, height, or figure, and con- 
fequently excited ideas of awe and reverence in the minds of a 
fimple uninformed people, inhabiting a country vifited but for a 
fhort feafon by the chearful rays of the fun, and buried during 
the greateft part of the year in fnow, with little other light than 
what they derived from the pale beams of the moon, or the 
brighter corrufcations of an aurora borealis. 
Two of thefe mountains are known at this day by the appella¬ 
tion of the greater and the leffer Finns-forke, given them by the 
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