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trod upon, or killed any other way. I call- 

 ed chickens to fuch places where they crept 

 on the ground in numbers ; but they would 

 not eat them. Nor did the wild birds like 

 them ; for the trees were full of thefe webs, 

 thou eh whole flights of little birds had their 

 nefts in the gardens and orchards. 



May the 18th. Though it was already 

 pretty late in May, yet the nights were very 

 dark here. About an hour after iun-fet, it 

 was fo dark, that it was impoffible to read 

 in a book, though the type was ever fo 

 large. About ten o'clock, on a ciear night, 

 the dark was fo much increafed, that it 

 looked like one of the darkeft ftar-light 

 nights in autumn, in Swede?!. It likewife 

 feemed to me, that though the nights were 

 clear, yet the ftars did not give fo great a 

 light as they do in Sweden. And as, about 

 this time, the nights are commonly dark, 

 and the fky covered with clouds ; fo I would 

 compare them only to dark and cloudy 

 Swedifo winter nights. It was therefore, 

 at this time of the year, very difficult to 

 travel in fuch cloudy nights ; for neither 

 man nor horfe could find their way. The 

 nights, in general, feem very difagreeable 

 to me, in comparifon to the light and glo- 

 rious fummer nights of Sweden. Igno- 

 rance fometimes makes us think nightly of 



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