Dart his slant beam on unobeying snows, * Balda Zhiok: i. e. mons altudinis, the highest mountain in Lapland. + Solfar-Kapper: capitium Solfar, hic locus omnium, quotquot veterum Lapponum superstitio sacrificiis religiosoque cultui dedicavit, celebratissimus erat, in parte sinus australis situs, semimilliaris spatio a mari distans. Ipse locus, quem curiositatis gratia aliquando me invisisse memini, duabus prealtis lapidibus, sibi invicem oppositis, quorum alter musco circumdatus erat, constabat. LEEMIUS De Lapponibus. The Lapland women carry their infants at their back in a piece of excavated wood, which serves them for a cradle. Opposite to the infant's mouth there is a hole for it to breathe through.-Mirandum prorsus est et vix credibile nisi cui vidisse contigit. Lappones hyeme iter facientes per vastos montes, perque horrida et invia tesqua, eo presertim tempore quo omnia perpetuis nivibus obtecta sunt et nives ventis agitantur et in gyros aguntur, viam ad destinata loca absque errore invenire posse, lactantem autem infantem, si quem habeat, ipsa mater in dorso bajulat, in excavato ligno (Gieed❜k ipsi vocant) quod pro cunis utuntur: in hoc infans pannis et pellibus convolutus colligatus jacet. LEEMIUS De Lapponibus. Scream in its scanty cradle: he the while He marks the streamy banners of the North, Of the present impulse, teaching Self-controul, Seat Reason on her throne. Wherefore not vain, I deem those legends terrible, with which Is Tempest, when the unutterable shape Speeds from the mother of Death, and utters once That shriek, which never Murderer heard, and lived. * Jaibme Aibmo. Or if the Greenland Wizard in strange trance There dwells the Fury Form, whose unheard name And frenzy Nature. Yet the wizard her, Armed with *Torngarsuck's power, the Spirit of Good, Forces to unchain the foodful progeny * They call the Good Spirit, Torngarsuck. The other great but malignant spirit is a nameless Female; she dwells under the sea in a great house, where she can detain in captivity all the animals of the ocean by her magic power. When a dearth befalls the Greenlanders, an Angekok or magician must undertake a journey thither: he passes through the kingdom of souls, over an horrible abyss into the Palace of this phantom, and by his enchantments causes the captive creatures to ascend directly to the surface of the ocean. See CRANTZ' Hist, of Greenland, vol. i. 206. Of the Ocean stream.-Wild phantasies! yet wise, If there be Beings of higher class than Man, I deem no nobler province they possess, Than by disposal of apt circumstance To rear up Kingdoms: and the deeds they prompt, They chuse their mortal ministers from such states And such, perhaps, the Spirit, who (if words Witnessed by answering deeds may claim our Faith) Held commune with that warrior-maid of France Who scourg'd the Invader.-From her infant days, With Wisdom, Mother of retired Thoughts, Her soul had dwelt ; and she was quick to mark The good and evil thing, in human lore Undisciplin'd. For lowly was her Birth, And Heaven had doom'd her early years to Toil On the poor Lab'ring man with kindly looks, Way-wanderer, when along the rough-hewn Bench Which on the Mulberry-bough with welcome creek His Vices and his Sorrows! And full oft At Tales of cruel Wrong and strange Distress So twenty seasons past. The Virgin's Form, Active and tall, nor Sloth nor Luxury Had shrunk or paled. Her front sublime and broad, Her flexile eye-brows wildly hair'd and low, And her full eye, now bright, now unillum'd, |