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qualities that usually commend Land for agriculture. Then as to his urging its
verdant and rich pastures doth not follow that all Land which yields much
grass should be equally capable of bearing good corn. Yet doth the Land
afford plenty of grass, and that so good that their Cattel are fatned much cheaper
and sooner with it than any other thing, as alSo divers hearbs, but particularly
’tis happy in all kind of pot-hearbs. There are many large Woods and
Forests, especially towards Norway, but not very thick; likewise steep rocks
and high mountaines called Doffrini; upon whose naked tops, by reason of
the violence of the winds to which they are exposed, never yet grew tree.
Below these hills lie most pleasant Vallies, in which are clear fountaines
and rivulets innumerable, which emtying themselves into the rivers, at length
are carried into the Bothnic Sea. Their water is clear, sweet and wholesome,
only their Forests abound with stinking and standing Pools. This Country
Winter and Summer hath an incredible number of all kinds of wild beasts,
especially the lefser sorts, which suffice not only for their own use, but to drive
a great trade with their neighbours. They have Birds alSo of all sorts very
many, but Fish in such abundance that a great part of the Natives are entirely
fed by them. But of all these we shall speak in their proper places, I will add
no more here but this, that the Description of old Finland or Scritofinnia by
the Ancients is the same which hath bin given here of Lapland; to confirm
what I said before that these Countries differ only in name, and not in nature
and situation. We come now to its Division.
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