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boats, go a-hfhing, frequently a-fowling, and in the fpring time 
hunt the fquirrel, which they kill with a wooden arrow ftiot from 
a crofs-bow, as is reprefented in the plate. 
This figure of the bow is accurately copied from the original, 
which my friend Mr. Julin puchafed, and brought with him 
when he returned from his excurfion into the interior of the go¬ 
vernment of Uleaborg h it has a ftrong refemblance to thofe with 
which the Dalicarlian mountaineers were armed before the time 
of Guftavus Vafa. It is extremely heavy, and requires great 
llrength to bend it, even with the affiftance of a thong which the 
Finlander carries about with him tied to his leather girdle. The 
ancient ufages, ftill preferved in the country, are an inconteftable 
proof of the fimplicity of the natives, and of the little knowledge 
they have acquired of our modern inventions. Thefe ufages are, 
however, worthy objects of the traveller’s attention, and are now 
the more interefting, becaufe they are falling every day into obli¬ 
vion, giving place to others of recent date. 
In fhooting the fquirrel they employ, as has been intimated, a 
fort of blunt, pointlefs arrow, that they may kill the animal with¬ 
out injuring the fkin: and what is deferving of being noticed, 
they do not take aim as we commonly do, by bringing the handle 
of the crofs bow near the eye, but fet it upon the belly; and yet 
by this method, which appears fo awkward to us, they feldom or 
never mifs hitting the objeft. The arrow is too valuable to be 
loft; for the moment it falls, it is picked up for another occafton. 
But the fpecies of hunting which fets the courage and enterprife 
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