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280 GENERAL REMARKS
The men are very dexterous in making veflels 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 ftain 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-
fides 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 {cantling into two planks, they can
now by the help of the faw divide it into {everal.
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