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but it proved to be only the overflowing of a river 

 which runs through this valley. At Waramow found 

 a good enough inn, compared to what we had been 

 used to of late. Though it was now late, yet we 

 resolved to go on. The road lay through impenetrable 

 forests, and was so bad we could scarcely crawl along : 

 it was perfectly dark, and we got shook to pieces, yet 

 I slept through the greater part. From the next post 

 we took the way by a shorter cut through a wood 

 into the great road, which also lay the whole of the 

 way through forests of pine, broken only here and 

 there by an acre of land cleared, with a cottage on 

 it. At midnight we came to a green break in the, 

 wood where the inn of Skylingaryd stands. It was 

 snug and most agreeable to us : we had some potatoes, 

 milk, and ham, with our own tea, a couple of good 

 beds, and a fire, so that I feel myself rather comfort- 

 able while writing this, though I have more than half 

 the journey before me ; and so I shall proceed to note 

 down a few observations on the country through which 

 we have passed, the wildest and most unfrequented in 

 the south of Sweden. The manners of the natives are 

 the same nearly through this quarter I mean through 

 Skamaand and the greater part of Smaland, towards 

 Jonkopyichage. 



1. The difference is striking between Elsinore and 

 Helsingborg, the opposite side of the Sound. The 

 peasantry, from the moment you enter Sweden, have 

 a much finer appearance than the Danes. Their 

 countenances more healthy, and without that watery 



