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stones which have furnished them with material for their lamps
and pots.
Next, and to me most inexplicable, how did these poor
astomiching
aborigines discover the qualities of the material composing the
masses, and the uses to which it could be put , and then devise means
of availing themselves of it?
From what I have seen of this people and their exhaustive
knowledge of all the materials to be found in their country, and
the special qualifications of each; I am inclined to think that
these little brown wizards of the north have at one time or anoth-
er during the past centuries, put through the laboratory of common
sense and practical experience, every stone or other material in
the whole range of their observation, and settled for all time the
characteristics, the qualities and capabilities of each and
where these capabilities could be used for their own benefit, have
devised means for so utilizing them.
These particular masses have been the ready iron mine of
these northern men, beyond the control of any trust, from which
each chipped his little fragments when a harpoon head, a lance
point or a knife was needed. It has been to them an exhaustless
source of utility; and through the centuries they have hammered
off their little flakes and gone away rejoicing with the small
splinters from Heaven's foundry thus laboriously secured.
The spectable of these little fur-clad children of the
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