158 THE SXARGANG. 



not slow to avail themselves. This is more particularly 

 the case in Norrland the most northern of the four 

 grand divisions into which Sweden is divided where 

 shooting and trapping, the latter especially, are made 

 a sort of profession. 



"Every Hcmman* in the province of Herjeadalen " 

 (a part of Norrland), so M. Albin informs us, " has its 

 own Snui'-gting, or locality, where traps and snares are set ; 

 and there is not a single proprietor who has less than 

 500 of these devices ; the greater part 2,000, and many 

 3,000. The parish of Sveg, for instance, contains about 

 300,000 Tunnland (some 307,000 English acres), the 

 owners of which are about 170 in number. Now if it be 

 assumed that each of these men sets on an average 1,765 

 scares, it will therefore be one for every Tunnland. 1 a 1 his 

 parish," he adds, " no single path-way, or other suitable 

 spot for the purpose, is without traps or snares, and it is 

 a common saying with the people that, ' bora fogclii <jr 



* The whole of Sweden is divided into Hemmans, signifying home 

 steads; and these again, very generally, into smaller farms. Kadi Hem 

 iu:ii is Imrthened with one and the same imposts. This institution took 

 ]tlacc years and years ago for military purjwses. At the time, it was 

 prolmbly an equitable division of the land in regard to its money value, 

 without reference to its area. The si*e of the lleinman, a.s a eousei|iifm-e, 

 varies very greatly in the several provinces. To give a Uetter idea of this, 

 I may mention, that in thai of Malmo about tin- richest and liest eiilthated 

 in Sweden the Hem man contain^ the one hundredtli part of :i square 

 mile, whilst in that of I'itea, whieh is very seantily populated and overrun 

 with forests (formerly nearly valueless, but now of great worth), it eontains 

 one square mile and a quarter; that i~, a lleinman in the pro\ inee of 

 I'itea is one humlivd and twenty live timo larirer than one in the pro\ inei- 

 of Miilni'i. 



When s|H-aking of tle size of an estate in Sweden, it is eiistomaiA 

 to Bay, it eoiisisU of so many HemmanH, not Tiinnlands. or :i. 

 ax with us. Mm tliis de~eri|>tion, us will IK' gathered froin what is: 



IV little idea of till' IVal extent of till' |iro|M-it\ 



