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the management of these Finlanders, I would 

 tie them up to the wall and give them fif- 

 teen pair of lashes apiece till they made 

 chimneys to their huts, especially as they 

 have such plenty of fire-wood. This im- 

 provement in the comfort of their dwellings 

 might surely be accomplished by the au- 

 thority of the chief magistrate, for I have 

 not been able to learn any sufficient reason 

 for their adherence to their old way of 

 building. If people thirty or forty years 

 of age are thus afflicted, what must become 

 of them by the time they are seventy ? 



The Finlander's scythe is represented in 

 the annexed figure. 



The handle is rather above two feet in 

 length, straight for about the space of a 

 foot from the part where the blade is 

 bound on. Afterwards it is slightly curv- 

 ed outwards, and then again, towards the 

 apex, in some degree inwards, so as to 

 make a straight line with the base. The 

 top is thicker than any other part. The 

 blade of the scythe is, like that used in our 



