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rising, and then go down at full gallop as soon as they 

 reach the top. 



8. The peasants are obliged to find horses, and both 

 they and the innkeepers are under the strictest nom- 

 inal discipline. If a holcar (man who gives the horses) 

 asks drink-money, he is to receive so many lashes ; if 

 an innkeeper imposes on the journey, he is to get 

 lashes ; more for the next, and, for the third offence, 

 he is to be sent a slave to a fortress. Like all severe 

 regulations, these are never enforced. Yet there is a 

 book printed which has these regulations at the be- 

 ginning, and is distributed to every inn, with blanks 

 for the name of the passenger, the date, hour of his 

 arrival and departure, number of horses, where from 

 and whither going, also for his complaints against the 

 people, and theirs against him. Once a-month the 

 surveyor examines this ; but we observed that, except 

 in the remote provinces, the people did not seem to 

 care about it. The price is 8 skellings (8 pence) a 

 Swedish mile per horse, of which ten make a degree, 

 or near seven English. They drive, and seldom ride, 

 their horses. 



9. In these southern parts we saw chiefly growing 

 rye, barley, beans, and a few peas and oats. They 

 dry these grains in three ways. That which we saw 

 in the south was simple enough : it consisted in pil- 

 ing up the sheaves loose upon long poles stuck 

 through them ; these are scattered round the house 

 or barn, and have a singular enough appearance. 

 Another method is that of placing three sheaves tri- 



