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in Sweden where they are more anxious to learn, and I am 

 certain a well educated young Englishman could get an ex- 

 cellent living by teaching English. He would make far 

 more money and be far more independent than many a 

 poor curate at home, and thus gain an introduction into the 

 best families. 



If he wants real wild Swedish sporting, he had better, 

 when he moves, go right up into Dalecarlia, and the nearer 

 he camps to the dividing fell range between Sweden and 

 Norway the better. But in every part of Wermland he will 

 get wild forest shooting. I have heard Trysell, on the Nor- 

 wegian frontier, well spoken of, but I fancy anywhere about 

 twenty-five or thirty Swedish miles north of Carlstad, would 

 bring a man into the wildest forest districts ; and I should 

 recommend him to be somewhere near the fells. I know the 

 river Klar for quite twenty miles up, and I was much dis- 

 appointed in both the fishing and shooting there, for I was 

 not near enough to the real fells, and none of the great lake 

 trout seem to come far up that river. Probably they are 

 all stopped by the fall at Degerforss, about a couple of 

 Swedish miles north of Carlstad, where great numbers are 

 taken every year in the salmon- trap. Strange to say, I 

 found very few willow grouse up there, although they come 

 much further south ; in fact, very little of any kind of game 

 on the banks of that river. Bear shooting, as well as elk, is 

 to be obtained within about seventy English miles north of 

 Carlstad. 



His English money he had better leave with Mr. Duff, in 

 Gothenburg, to whom all his remittances could be made. 

 That gentleman could send him Swedish money when he 

 required it. Whatever part he settled in, there would 

 always be a town or iron manufactory in the neighbourhood 

 to which his letters could be sent from Carlstad, and this he 

 must arrange with the postmaster there. 



He will of course bring all his English clothes and tackle 

 with him, and let his outfit be good. Just what he has 

 used at home will do here. A rifle will be of very little use 

 to him, for in bear and elk shooting, I think a smooth-bore 



