’tis probable of the _Biarmians_ as well for their neighbourhood to _Helsingia_, of which before, as for their worshipping a God by the name of _Jomala_, which is a _Finland_ word, denoting God amongst them to this day. Moreover the _Biarmians_ have many other things like the _Finlanders_, as the Art of darting, of Magic, _&c._ So that _Biarmia_ may be a Colony of _Finland_, whose People were called by Strangers, from their _skirring_ along, or gliding upon the snow, _Scritofinni_. But now supposing all this true, and that the _Biarmia_ of the Ancients, and _Scritfinnia_ were the same, ’tis a question still whether _Lapland_ be distinct from them or not. _Joh._ and _Ol. Magnus_ in their Geographic Tables and descriptions, make them distinct Countries. But that cannot be; for if _Scritfinnia_ and _Biarmia_ reach one way to _Helsingia_ and _Jamtia_, on the other to _Finland_; if they lye so near these Provinces, and extend to the Bay of _Bothnia_ (both which have bin demonstrated before) I do not see where _Lapland_ can have any place at all. And the same Authors are also mistaken in putting it South of _Biarmia_ and _Scritfinnia_, whereas the Antients placed these beyond it. For that they mean’t only by _Biarmia_ that which the Swedes now call _Trennes_, appears to be false from what has bin said before: for where are any Rivers in _Trennes_ that run into the Bay of _Bothnia_? and how is it bordering upon _Finland_? Wherefore contrary to _Joh._ and _Ol. Magnus_, I think rather that _Lapland_ is the same that was first by the Inhabitants called _Biarmia_, by Strangers _Scritfinnia_, then changing the name for some of the reasons here produced, it came to be _Lappia_ or _Lapponia_; which beginning from _Jamtia_ and _Angermannia_, goes all about each _Bothnia_, and at length ends in the extremities of _Carelia_ and _Finland_, so as to comprehend all the whole tract from the North even to the main Ocean, the white Sea, and the Lake _Ladek_, which are the very bounds of old _Biarmia_ and _Scritfinnia_. But that it went as far as the Ocean, the Antients seem not to have so well understood; nor indeed _Johan._ and _Ol. Magnus_, who in those parts, have made _Scritfinnia_ and _Biarmia_ different Countries from _Lapland_. So also _Damianus Goes_, who, whatever he knew of _Lapland_, had it from them, says it extends it self to unknown Regions, because he knew not who lived further towards the North Sea. But the Antients have placed there, besides the _Scritfinni_, the _Cynocephali_, _Busii_, _Troglodytes_, _Pygmies_, _Cyclops’s_,: and some others, passing by the _Himantopodes_, of whom we have spoken before: tho in this age none doubts but the _Laplanders_ inhabit it all, and those who have sailed along those Coasts have met with none others but _Laplanders_. In fine _Charles_ the 9^{th} King of _Swedland_ in the year 1600, being desirous to know the truth of that Country, sent two famous Mathematicians, _M. Aron. Forsius_