GENERAL REMARKS 
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Is in the days of infpedlion, which means, that fhe is in a condition 
that both requires her to be careful of herfelf, and to be attended 
to by others. 
On the fubje<fl of proverbs or adages, in which the language is 
by no means rich, I muft not omit to mention one common 
among the Norwegian ruffcics of Finmark. When they would 
give the fincereft teftimony of commiferation and grief at any 
misfortune or calamity, be the condition of the fufferer ever fo 
diftinguifhed or exalted, they exclaim, BeifleJlakkar , that is, Poor 
heaft, an expreffion which conveys .to them the livelieft fenfe of 
compaffion and forrow« 
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