It remains therefore that they came from the _Finlanders_, who have a certain division or allotment called _Lappio_. But tho we have shewed that the name and originall of this Nation is not taken thence, it is not to be doubted that they are of the race of the _Finlanders_ and _Samojedes_, and this is the opinion of most learned men, which may be farther proved by many arguments. First the name of both Nations is the same, the _Laplanders_ in their own language being called _Sabmi_ or _Same_, and the _Finlanders_ _Suoni_, which two differ only in the Dialect; and there is a tradition that they had both the same Founder _Jumi_, who could not well have bin the Author of diverse Nations. We may also observe that their languages have much affinity, tho they be not the very same, as shall be proved at large in a particular Chapter. The _Finlanders_ call _God_, _Jumala_, the _Laplanders_, _Jubmal_, the _Finlanders_ fire, _Tuli_, the _Laplanders_ _Tolle_; they call a hill _Wuori_, these _Warra_, and so they agree in many other words. Besides they have bodies and habits alike, both their limbs well set, black hair, broad faces, and stern countenances, and whatever else they have different is very small, or may easily proceed from their diet or Clime, in which they live. Their clothes too are not much unlike; for if we compare the Picture of an ancient _Finlander_, as it still remains in the Church of _Storekyr_ in _Ostrobothnia_, where the slaughter of Bishop _Henry_ was drawn at large, with mine of a _Laplander_ in Chapt. XVII. it will appear there is no great difference between them. Lastly they agree in disposition and humor: they are both much given to laziness at home, unless when necessity urges them to work; both, unmoveable from their purpose, both superstitious and lovers of Magick. And therefore _Ol. Magn._ saies of them both, that they were so skilfull Magicians in the time of their Paganism as if they had had _Zoroaster_ himself for their teacher. In a word whatever _Tacitus_ saies of the _Finlanders_, now holds true of the _Laplanders_, that _they have neither weapons, horses, nor houshold gods, they live upon herbs, are cloth’d with skins, lie upon the ground, putting all their confidence in arrows, which they head with bones for want of iron. Both the men and women support themselves by hunting, and they have no other defence for their Children against the violence of wild beasts or weather, but Huts or hurdles, which are the security of the old men as well as young._ And the same Description which _Saxo_ gives of these, belongs as well to the _Laplanders_, that _they are the farthest People towards the North, living in a Clime almost inhabitable, good archers and hunters, wanderers, and of an uncertain habitations, wheresoever they kill a beast making that their mansion, and they slide upon the snow in broad wooden shoes_. Besides all this, the _Norwegians_ and _Danes_ call the _Laplanders_, _Fenni_, as may be seen in _Petr.