FINMARK

a division of Norway, jn the extreme north, partly bounded by the Arctic Ocean. It consists of a mountainous and usually sterile tract, stretching 140 miles north-east to south-west, with an average breadth of about 40 miles. The Lofoden Islands belong to a long line of coast where prsee aa Span eee: are established. rea, Pi) 8q. iles; pop. q 53,308.. ae ee INNS, in their own language called Suomatainen, are a race of people inhabiting the north-west of European Ru ia (governments of Archangel and Olonetz), but especially Finland. Ina wider sense the term Finns, with its adjective Finnish, is applied to one of the chief branches of the northern or Ural-Altaio division of the TuraBian family of peoples and languages. _The Ugro-Finnic family has been divided into four groups or branches: (1) the Ugric, te which the Ostiaks, Finland—Nicolai Church, Helsingfors Voguls, and Magyars belong; (2) the Bulgaric or Volgaic, consisting of the Tsheremi es and the Mordvins; (3) the Permic, composed of the Permians, Sirianes, and Votiaks; and (4) the Tchudic or Baltic group. To the last belong, besides the Finns proper, the Esths of Estonia and the Lives or Livonians, the Tchudes, in the governments of Novgorod and Olonetz, and the Lapps in Archangel and the northern parts of Finland, Sweden and Norway. The typical Finns are physically of low stature but of strong build; with round head, forehead low and arched, features flat with prominent cheek-bones and oblique eyes.