else among the Antients but to glide along the ground, for they do not take up one foot after the other, as in common running, but carrying themselves steady upon the frozen snow, they move forward stooping a little, as shall be shewn hereafter. And perhaps this is the onely cause that they are called _Himantopodes_,[5] People creeping upon their knees; which agrees exactly with these _Scritofinni_: for they hearing that _Skriida_ was to creep along, what could they fancy the _Scritofinni_ to be, but People not going like other men, but crawling forward like creeping animalls, but of this I shall speak more at large when I come to the _Laplanders_ gliding upon the ice. That which I would chiefly evince here, is, that there are such a people rightly called _Scritofinni_, and the Country which they inhabit is _Scritofinnia_ or _Scritfinnia_, and that there is no reason we should think there was no such place, since there are those who are called _Scritfinni_, _i. e._ _Finlanders_, who run upon the ice with wooden shoes, whose Country from thence may well be called _Scritofinnia_. And the same may be urged for _Biarmia_ against those that will not allow there is any such place. For first the antient Writers making frequent mention of it, as that Author of the History thereof, calls it often _Biarmaland_ in the old _Gothick_ or _Islandick_ language, who also calls the King of it _Hereker_ in Ch. 7. and his two Sons, the one _Rœrik_ the other _Siggeir_. _Saxo_ likewise in his 9^{th} book, speaks of a certain King of this place, who reigned in the time of _Regner_ King of the _Danes_, making it border upon _Finland_, when he says the King of _Biarmia_ fled for refuge to _Matullus_, who then reigned in _Finland_. But now granting there were antiently such names as _Biarmia_ and _Scritfinnia_, it remains doubtfull still whether they were distinct Countries or no. All Authors except _Johan._ and _Ol. Magn._ seem to make them the same, _Procop._ _Jornand._ _Paul. Warnfrid._ and _Adam Bremensis_ speak of _Scritfinnia_, but none of _Biarmia_, and the Northern writers do just contrary. _Saxo_ indeed mentions them both, but not at the same time: once in his Preface he names _Scritfinnia_, leaving out _Biarmia_, in other places he names _Biarmia_ omitting the other; from whence I am almost of opinion that ’tis the same Country called by native Writers _Biarmia_, by forreign _Scritfinnia_. We may add further that as _Adam Bremensis_ makes _Scritfinnia_ next to _Helsingia_, the Author of the History of _Heraud_ and _Bosa_ sets _Biarmia_ in the same place, speaking of some Woods in it, and Rivers that emty themselves into the _Sinus Bothnicus_ or bay of _Ganduia_ next to _Helsingia_. And moreover as the _Scritfinni_ are a People of _Finland_, which not onely their name, but an old Chorographick Table commended by _Grotius_ doth intimate, distinguishing the _Fenni_ into the _Scritfenni_ and _Redefenni_, so