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“To prevent as much as possible the interruption of notes, it was thought proper to premise a few miscellaneous observations.

I.

THE northern nations held their Runic verses in such reverence, that they believed them sufficient (provided they were pronounced with great emotion of mind) to raise the ghosts of the departed: and that without other magical rites, especially if the the party had worked himself up