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KTHNOLOGY, 



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inclement parts of Lapland ^here some garden-plant may 

 not Ic discov^ered whicli has been imported from places of 



more genial cJimate. Tlie esculent plants in the posi- 

 session of any remote and secluded people may often 

 afford a clue as to the origin and family relations of the 

 tribe. 



Light also has been tlirown on this subject by the kinds 

 ^^^'~'"^ -tiuments used in agricultural works. Noti 



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be taken of the forms of the plough and of the different 

 instnaiient.^ used in tillage, and of the pecuHar methods 

 of culthaticu anywhere found to be in use. 



The L....Lanical arts practised by various nations are 

 to be carefully observed, such as their preparation of 



clothing, their architecture, or the manner in which they 



construct their dwellings and their household furnitu... 



A subject v/orthy of particular inquiry is their metallurgy, 

 and the degrees of skill displayed m the arts of mining 

 and making metallic im.plements. Many rude nations 

 are known to haye had some knowledge of the precious 

 metals, of gold and silver, and even to iiave smelted 

 copper long before they learned to know the use uf iron. 



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to invent the manufacture of steel, and who never du 

 the iron ore which abounded in their own mountains. 

 The western nations of Europe are supposed to have 

 made hatchets and celts and swords of copper, long before 



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use of iron. In most countries we 



trace the remains of a barbarous ai^e, when cutting^ im- 

 plements of various kinds were made of flint or stone, and 

 when even ornaments were manufactured from bone, or 





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