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houfes, and roads, which in Sweden are co- 

 vered with nettles and goofe-foot, which 

 European plants are very icarce in America. 

 But the Datura and Phytolacca are the worft 

 weeds here, nobody knowing any particu- 

 lar ufe of them. 



Turnep-fields are fometimes to be 

 feen. In the middle of the highroad I per- 

 ceived a dead black fnake, which was four 

 feet fix inches long, and an inch and a half 

 in thicknefs. It belonged to the viper 

 kind. 



Late at night a great Halo appeared 

 round the moon. The people faid that it 

 prognofticated either a ftorm, or rain, or 

 both together. The fmaller the ring is, or 

 the nearer it comes to the moon, the foon- 

 er this weather fets in. But this time 

 neither of thefe changes happened, and 

 the halo had foretold a coldnefs in the air. 



I saw to-day the Chermes of the alder 

 (Chermes AlniJ in great abundance on the 

 branches of that tree, which for that reafon 

 looks quite white, and at a diftance ap- 

 pears as it were covered with mould. 



Oclober the 4th. I continued my jour- 

 ney early in the morning, and the country 

 ftill had the fame appearance as I went on. 

 It was a continual chain of pretty high 

 hills, with an eafy afcent on all fides, and of 



vallies 



