CONCERNING LAPLAND. 
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account of his labours, took clown his name in his memorandum 
book, and gave him a promife of future preferment in the church, 
which, in December, next year, he faithfully fulfilled, by promot¬ 
ing him, after being ten years a mififionary in Lapland, to the rec- 
torfhip of the vacant parifii of Augwaldfnefs, in the diocele of 
Chriftianfand. 
The king, in his progrefs through Norway, in the fiummer of 
3/33, was detained for fome time in the harbour of Aalfund by 
flrefis of weather. He fent for Mr. Leems, and put a number of 
queftions to him concerning the Rate of the Laplanders, the com¬ 
merce of Finmark, the fuccefs of the chriftian million in thofe 
parts, and other matters: to which queftions the miffionary re¬ 
plied according to the beft of his ability and information, with all 
due reverence to his majefty’s perfon. At laft the king gave him 
a commiffion to get fome young man among the Laplanders, and 
to fend him to Copenhagen to him as foon as poffible. 
But who, fays the miflionary, could believe it poffible that there 
fihould be any one who w T ould rejcdl an offer that promifed fo de¬ 
finable and fiplendid a condition of life ? Yet this was really the 
cafe. Application w 7 as made to numbers of individuals among 
the Lapland youth to go to court, where they would be kindly 
received and taken care of by the king—but in vain. At length, 
however, a young man, called Peter Nicolas Korfnaes, w r as pre¬ 
vailed on to fuft'er himfelf to be taken on board of fillip to Copen¬ 
hagen, though not without very great difficulty. This Nicolas 
had nothing remarkable to recommend him, either in his ftaturc 
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