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FINNINGIA

Volume 7 · 72 words · 1797 Edition

or Fenningia, (anc. geog.), the true reading for Enningia in Pliny, which he makes an island, but is more truly a peninsula. Now Finland, a province of Sweden. Finn, or Finni, the people; whose ferocity was extraordinary, poverty extreme, herbs their food, skins their covering, and the ground their couch; regardless of man and of gods, they attained to a very difficult thing, not to have a single wish to form, (Tacitus.)