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300 feet higher, l^eyond which there are no trees and very Httle 

 vegetation of any kind. The zones of vegetable growth are sub- 

 stantially what we would call in North America the Canadian (spruce) , 

 the Hudsonian (birch), and the Arctic. The flies were most numer- 

 ous in the first named, and there were very few in the third. 



Leaving Are on the evening of July 20, I continued my journey 

 to Oestersund, the capital of the province of Jemtland, 75 miles east 

 and a little south. Here I remained two days to collect, having good 

 weather and getting a good series of flies, many dift'erent from those 

 found in Are. The surrounding country is level, and there are no 

 mountains close by. The city, which has something like 15,000 popu- 

 lation, is situated on a large lake, and is connected by a bridge with a 

 rocky island on which a part of the town is built. My collecting was 

 mostly on this island and on the lake shore north of the city. The 

 gentle slopes extending back for about a mile from the lake shore 

 are well drained and are all in cultivation, hay and barley being the 

 main crops. There is a dense agricultural population close to the lake, 

 but farther back on the level the country is boggy and unfit for 

 agriculture. The farm buildings are all of wood and well painted, 

 usually red with white trimmings. The red-tiled roofs however pre- 

 sent a quite difl:'erent appearance from the shingled ones of the United 

 States. This is in a latitude corresponding to the northern edge of 

 Labrador, in North America, but not quite so far north as Fair- 

 banks, Alaska. 



After two days in Oestersund, I went to Stockholm, Copenhagen, 

 and Paris for more study of American flies in the museums, and 

 sailed for New York from Cherbourg, on August 17. 



