These words I suppose may serve to declare the affinity that we said was between the Language of the _Laplanders_ and _Finlanders_: and because the words that I have set down, do not signify any forreign commodities, but things natural, and such as are in use among all People alike, I am given to beleive that the _Laplanders_ had not any peculiar Language, which did wholy differ from that of _Finland_, but that it took its original thence. For if, as some would have it, they had any Language, they might properly call their own, why did they not out of it, upon things of so common occurrence and ordinary use, rather impose their own words, then such as no man could doubt were taken from the _Finlanders_. No People certainly were ever guilty of so much folly as to impose forreign names upon so common things, if they had any Language of their own to express them in: as might be at large demonstrated from the Languages of the _Germans_, ancient _Gaules_, _Spaniards_, _Italians_, _Greeks_, &c. neither have we any reason to count it a hard inference if we should from hence gather, that the _Laplanders_ themselves sprung from the _Finlanders_. For otherwise why should they have used any other Language then what they received from their fore-Fathers. And this seems to be the argument _Wexonius_ uses to prove the Language of the _Laplanders_ to have taken its rise from the _Finlanders_, when from the original of the People he infers the same of the Speech; for in this he intimates that to spring from any Country, and to use the same Language, are very convertible propositions. All which indeed seems to be no more then the truth. But now some one may object that the opinion of those men that affirm the Language of this Country to be primarily its own, could not be destitute of all reason, and that they must necessarily have had some probabilities whereon they grounded their opinion; and truly it cannot be denied but that there are many words which do not any waies agree with the Language of the _Finlanders_, as may appear from what follows,