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to Jook at us. But our companion told us, that 

 the people here were not fo exad: in regard to a 

 few fruits, as they are in other countries where 

 the foil is not fo fruitful in them. We after? 

 wards found very frequently that the country 

 people in Sweden and Finland guarded their tur-r 

 nips more carefully, than the people here do the 

 moft exquifite fruits. 



'Sept. igth. As I walked this morning into- 

 the fields, I ohferved that a copious dew was 

 fallen s for the grafs was as wet as if it had 

 rained. The leaves of the plants and trees had 

 contracted fo much mcl'lure, that the drops ran 

 down, I found on this oc&fion that the dew 

 was not only on the fuperior, but likewife oa 

 the inferior fide of the leaves. I therefore care- 

 fully confickred 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 Verbajcum Tkapjus, Qt^greaf 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 peafant, 

 has commonly an orchard near his houfe, in 

 whiph q.11 fprts of fruit, fuph 3$ peaches, apples, 

 pears, cherries, and others, are iri plenty. The 

 peaches were now almoft ripe. They are rare 

 in Europe, particularly in Sweden ; for in that 

 country hardly any people beiides the rich taflc 

 theru. But here every countryman had an or- 

 char$l fu!- 1 - of peach trees, whic?h were coyerec^ 



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