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together to breed. This is the cafe in the 

 woody, and mountainous parts of Sweden^ 

 more than in any other fpot of the earth j 

 the Lapland f lover called J>ago^ the Norland 

 fied chaffinch^ the Oeland tringa called alwar- 

 grim^ the Gothland duck called eider ^ the artic 

 duck of he ifland Carolina called torde^ the Ot- 

 tenbyenfian cobler'^s awl C2X\tdfterfloe€ha^ xhtpi- 

 cus trida5lylus of the Darlecarlians are all more 

 rare in other countries than pheafants are with 

 us. I may venture to affirm that no countrey up- 

 on the face of the earth abounds more with 

 birds and infeds, than Sweden. Wild rein- 

 deer^ flying fquirrels^ and the Norway rat that 

 pours down in troops from the mountains 

 into the plains below are unknown, and per- 

 haps happily unknown, any where elfe. 



Forreigners come into the Dalecarlian moun- 

 tains to C2it(zh falcons ^ as is well known. 



In the ifland Faro, fituated near Goth- 

 land, whale and falmon iiihery is very con- 

 veniently carried on, and no where with 

 greater profit. 



How m.any fpecies of fifhes furnifli pur ta- 

 bles very common in Sweden, efpecially of 

 the foftmouthed kind ^ fuch as the afp^ the 

 'wimha^ the farcn^ the hiorkna^ the mudd^ and 



others^ 



