Since the chapter on the ethnology of Scandinavia was printed, Mr. Worsaae has made me acquainted with a remarkable fact connected with the Isle of Laaland, confirmatory of the belief of a Sarmatian population partially, at least, in the Vithesleth. In the southern part of the island some of the geographical terms are Slavonic, and in Saxo there is the statement, that when the other Danes prepared an invasion against their Wend, or Slavonic, enemies, of the continent, the Laalanders were neither allowed to take a part in them, nor yet informed of their being in contemplation; for fear lest they should communicate the news to the _Wends_ (Slavonians).
[27] “This book ought to be largely circulated, not only on account of its scientific merits--though these, as we have in part shown, are great and signal--but because it is popularly written throughout, and therefore likely to excite general attention to a subject which ought to be held as one of primary importance. Every one is interested about fishes--the political economist, the epicure, the merchant, the man of science, the angler, the poor, the rich. We hail the appearance of this book as the dawn of a new era in the Natural History of England.”--_Quarterly Review_, No. 116.
Typographical errors corrected by the etext transcriber:
all the popution=> all the population { pg 214}
End of Project Gutenberg's The Ethnology of Europe, by Robert Gordon Latham