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on terra fir ma, traversing in their course forests, and all 

 kinds of broken ground, as what follows will show is at 

 times the case, one has difficulty in comprehending. 

 "During the winter of 1829," so we read in the 

 Jagare Forlundets TidsJcrift of 1832 and the truth of 

 the story is certified by the signature of several most 

 respectable individuals " a young Grey Seal took to 

 the land from the Skargard, near the village of Grono, 

 and, striking into the forest in a southerly direction, 

 passed, in its way, the hamlets of Sund and Wahlnas, 

 the church and iron-forge of Letifsta, and the hamlets 

 of Elinge and Fahlandbo. Near the last-named place 

 it met with a small river, then hard frozen over. This 

 it followed for a while, but was unable to find an 

 opening in the ice. It then took to the forest in a 

 south-westerly direction to the Flo lakes, in the parish of 

 Tegelsmora, where it was also unsuccessful in obtaining 

 access to water. Hence it proceeded south-east, crossing 

 in its progress the Lake Wika, in the parish of Film, on 

 the opposite side of which it again entered the forest, and 

 finally reached the hamlet of Andersbo, situated about 

 three (English) miles from Dannemora (the celebrated 

 iron-mines), where it was overtaken by its pursuers and 

 killed. The peregrinations of this Seal are believed to 

 have occupied nearly a week, it being, as is imagined, 

 without nourishment of any kind ; and during which period 

 it must have gone over at least thirty (English) miles of 

 country. The ground, however, it should be remarked, 

 was then covered with a foot and a half, or more, of newly- 

 fallen snow, which, no doubt, very greatly facilitated the 

 animal's movements." 



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