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• 

 fo little concerned at it, as not even to look 



at us. But our companion told us, that the 



people here were not fo exact in regard to 



a few fruits, as they are in other countries 



where the foil is not fo fruitful in them. 



We afterwards found very frequently that 



the country people in Sweden and Finland 



guarded their turneps more carefully, than 



the people here do the rnofr. exquifite fruits. 



September the 19th. As I walked this 

 morning into the fields, I obferved that a 

 copious dew was fallen ; for the grafs was 

 as wet as if it had rained. The leaves of 

 the plants and trees, had contracted fo 

 much moifture, that the drops ran down. 

 I found on this occafion that the dew was 

 not only on the fuperior, but likewife on 

 the inferior fide of the leaves. I therefore 

 carefully conlidered many leaves both of 

 trees and of other plants; both of thofe 

 which are more above, and of thofe which 

 are nearer to the ground. But I found in 

 all of them, that both fides of the leaves 

 were equally bedewed, except thofe of the 

 Verbafcum Thapfus, or great Mullein, which 

 though their fuperior fide was pretty well 

 covered with the dew, yet their inferior 

 had but a little. 



Every countryman, even a common 

 peafanf, has commonly an orchard near 



E 4 his 



