naturally are no great runners, tho by an art they have of sliding over the frozen snow, they are very swift in their motions. Some think that the Inhabitants do not denominate the Country, but the Country the Inhabitants, as in the name of _Norwegians_ and others, which seems to be strengthned by this, because _Ol. Magnus_ calls them _Lappomanni_, after the manner of _Nordmanni_, _Westmanni_, and _Sudermanni_, in which words _Manni_ signifying _Men_, they were call’d _Lappomanni_, _i. e._ Men of _Lappia_.[1] Others fancy that the name of the Country is deriv’d from _Lappu_, which in the _Finnonick_ language is _furthermost_, because it lies in the farthest part of _Scandinavia_. There is yet another opinion which may seem no less plausible then any of the former, which agrees as well with the signification of the word _Lapp_ among the _Laplanders_ themselves, as the credit given to what has been matter of fact, _viz._ that ’twas call’d _Lappia_, not from its situation, or other such like accident, but from the _Lappi_ that inhabited it. So that I take _Lappi_ to signify no other than _banish’t_ persons, which is the genuine signification of _Lapp_ in the _Lapland_ language; for the _Laplanders_ were originally _Finlanders_, and from leaving their Country may be presum’d to have took their name; and that not of their own choosing, but the _Finlanders_[2] imposition, with whom to _Lapp_ signifies to run away: whence the compellation seeming something scandalous, no person of quality to this day will endure to be call’d by it, tho from the _Finlanders_ others Nations, as the _Germans_, _Swedes_ and _Moscovites_, have learnt to call them so. But they of _Lappia Umensis_ stile themselves _Sabmienladti_, and those of _Lappia Tornensis_, _Sameednan_, from the word _Sabmi_ or _Same_; the signification of which, and whence they had it, we shall see hereafter.