Those who have writ of _Lapland_, mention different divisions of it. _Saxo_ in his 5^{ th} Book, and elswhere, speaks of two _Laplands_, and after him _Johannes Magnus_ tells us, _that both the_ Laplands _are joined together Southward_. I suppose in that division they had respect to their situation, and meant the Eastern and the Western _Lapland_: for so _Damianus Goes_, who seems to borrow from _Joh. Magnus_, expresses it. _Lapland_, saith he, _is divided into the Eastern and the Western, separated from each other by the Bothnic Sea_. From whence we may gather that that part of the Country which lies on one side of the _Bothnia_, was called the Eastern _Lapland_, and that which lies on the other, the Western.
Besides this division of _Lapland_, there is another taken from the places most frequented by the Inhabitants. For one part thereof, lying along the Coasts of the Ocean, is from thence called _Siœfindmarken_, that is _the maritime Lapland_; the other lying higher on the Continent, _Fiœldmarken_, that is, _inland Lapland_: tho by some they are called simply _Findmarken_ and _Lappmarken_. This last division _Pet. Claud._ gives us in his 27^{ th} Chapter. _All the Sea Coasts_, saith he, _Northward and Eastward as far as_ Findmarkia _reaches, are possest by the_ Siæfinni, _or maritime Finlanders, but the mountainous and champaign Country, by the Lapfinni, from thence named Lapmarkia or Wildfindlandia, that is wild or savage Findland_. Where he calls one part of the Country _Lapmarckia_, the other _Findmarckia_, the one lying along the shore, and bordering on the Sea, the other mountainous, woody, and savage, upon the _Terra firma_. And this too may be worth our notice, that _Wildfinland_ with him is that which others call _Lappmarkia_: I suppose, because the Natives live by hunting, as those of the other do by fishing. For he presently adds, _There are many thousands in that place that feed on nothing but the flesh of wild Beasts_. And indeed some there are with whom those only pass for the true _Laplanders_: as _Samuel Rheen_, who in his 2^d Chapter of his forementioned Book, tells us, _that besides the Scrickfinni_ (so he calls them that with _Pet. Claud._ are _Siœfinnes_) _there are other true_ Laplanders, _that live on nothing but rain deer_. And so from the Natives feeding on wild Beasts, _Lapland_ properly so called, is also stiled _Wildfindland_, in opposition to _Findmarkia_, whose Inhabitants live both on Fish and Cattel. And yet there may be given another reason for the imposition of this name, from the many woods of that Country. _Olaus Magnus_ in more places then one calls the natives, men that dwell in woods, or _Savages_: as in the title of his 3^d Chapt. of his 4^{ th} Book, which is, _Concerning the fierceness of the_ Savages, _or those that dwell in woods_, in which Chapter he describes the _Laplanders_. And in the following Chapter he says, _that the wild_ Laplanders _are clothed with rich skins of several Beasts_. The Baron _Herberstenius_ also in his History of _Moscovy_, calls them _Savage Laplanders, who tho they dwell_, says he, _on the Sea Coast in little Cottages, and lead a brutish kind of life, are yet more civilized then the Savages of Lapland_: whence ’tis plain, that by the _Findlanders_ living near the Sea, he means those that others call _Siœfinnes_, and by the _Savage Laplanders_ those that possess the inland Country, who he thinks were so called from their wildness and barbarity. And by and by he adds, _that by converse with Strangers, who come thither to trade, they begin to lay aside their Savage nature, and become a little more civilized_. Afterwards he calls them _Diki Loppi_, which name the _Moscovites_ give them at this time, as hath been shewed elswhere.