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150 GENERAL. REMARKS
is in the days of infpection, 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 fubjeét of proverbs or adages, in which the language is
by no means rich, I muft not omit to mention one common
among the Norwegian ruftics of Finmark. When they would
give the fincereft teftimony of commiferation and gricf at any
misfortune or calamity, be the condition of the futicrer ever fo
diftinguifhed or exalted, they exclaim, Bei/fe fiakkar, that is, Poor
heaft, an expreffion which conveys to them the livelieft fenfe of
compafiion and forrow.
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