GENERAL REMARKS 
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The men are very dexterous in making veffels of various capa¬ 
cities, from cups to drink out of, to cafks for containing the milk 
of their rein-deer. The wood they employ for this purpofe is from 
the beech-tree, which is equally beautiful with the maple, when 
finely polifhed. From the horns of the rein-deer they manufac¬ 
ture fpoons in a neat manner, which they contrive to Rain very 
handfomely in figures not unfkilfully defigned. Steel they work 
into knives, to which they fix handles, and ornament them in an 
elegant manner. We have already fpoken of their fledges ; be- 
Tides which they build boats in common with the Norwegians 
(called Nordmands) who inhabit Finmark. Sawing-mills are but 
lately introduced amongft them, which will contribute greatly to 
the faving of wood : for whereas with the axe, which they be- 
ufed, they could only fplit a fcantling into two planks, they can 
now by the help of the faw divide it into feverah 
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