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GENERAL REMARKS
CONCERNING
L A P L A N D .
SECTION I.
Of fome Writers who have given Accounts of Lapland, efpecially the
MiJJionary Canute Leems— The Author s Views in this part of the
Work explained.
IF a traveller were to confine his attention and his narrative to
the particulars that aélually meet his own eye, his difcoveries
would be bounded by a narrow horizon, and even in that compafs
his information would often be very imperfed. T h e origin, rea-
fons, and various connections o f things are frequently to be learned
from others. I t is therefore his bufinefs, not only to converfe as
much as poffible with the natives, and all thofe who can afford intelligence,
but alfo to confult written records. T o fwell a jo u rnal
with extraéis from books within every one s reach, and which
all may underftand, is a common but not a very equitable prac-
V o l . II. T tice.
