a Swedish Professour, and _Hieronymus Birkholten_ a German, with instruments, and all necessaries to make what discoveries they could of _Lapland_; who at their return, did certify, and make it out, that beyond the Elevation of the Pole 73 degrees there was no Continent towards the North but the great frozen Sea, and that the farthest point was _Norcum_ or _Norcap_, not far from the Castle of _Wardhouse_. But of this distant _Lapland_ those that are curious may enquire at their leisure, we purpose to treat here only of that which is subject to the Government of the _Swedes_; and this is a vast Country, thought by _Paulinus_ in his history of the North, of equall extent almost with all _Swedland_ properly so called. _Andr. Buræus_ says it contains in length above 100 German miles, and in breadth 90. All this Country comes now under the name of _Lapland_, in which all agree that ever described it; and if we would take an account of the Climate of it by this vast compass of Earth, we must begin from the 64^{th} degree of latitude, and so to the 71; but in longitude it must extend at least to the 27^{th} Meridian, or more. Moreover if we will compute the longitude from journies that have bin made thither, all hitherto have unanimously put the beginning of it about the 38^{th} degree, and the end in the 65^{th}. And this may suffice partly for an account of the situation of _Lapland_ in general; and partly of that which is subject to the _Swedes_. _Dam. à Goes_, a Knight of Portugall, sets its bounds thus in his description of Spain: _Lapland is divided into the Eastern and Western part, the Bothnick Sea coming between. The extremity of it is Tornia. Eastward it reaches to the white Lake, towards the North comprehending diverse Provinces, and extends it self beyond all knowledge. On the West towards Island it joins to part of Norway, and on the other side of Norway ’tis bounded with Swedland, Finland, and both the Bothnia’s._ But _Ol. Petr. Nieuren_ confutes this of the _Bothnic_ Sea lying between; for so part of _Lapland_ would lie in _Finland_ or _Ostrobothnia_, part in _Westrobothnia_, which every one knows is false: and the very vulgar can tell so much, that the _Bothnic_ Sea comes not any where within 18 or 20 miles of _Lapland_: tho this ought not to pass beyond _Damianus_’s time, since _Nieurenius_ himself confesses in another place, that the _Laplanders_ had their seat about the _Bothnic_ Sea, but that afterwards they were driven out, of which I shall speak hereafter. I will only add here a Table of the latitudes and longitudes of the chiefest Places, as they were taken by _M. Aronis Forsius_ and _Hieronymus Birckholten_ Ann. 1600. _Longit._ _Latit._