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angularly, leaning against each other at the top ; on 

 this they placed a fourth, tied tight at its upper end, 

 diverging over on the others like a beehive, so that 

 the rain runs off as if it had been thatched. The 

 third is chiefly used in Finland : a barn is built of 

 three floors, with a division in the middle for thrash- 

 ing and laying out the grain ; on the ground floor, on 

 each side, is built a large oven of stone, reaching up 

 a few feet into the second ; it is lighted and made 

 quite hot, whilst the wet grain is laid loosely on the 

 floors. Nobody can enter it for some time after it 

 has cooled, but it dries effectively. All this we heard 

 afterwards. 



10. The agriculture of the south, where we have 

 passed, seems backward. The fields slope often to the 

 very middle, and the furrows are so broad that they 

 seem in most cases merely intended for footways or 

 divisions : when they are meant for drains, they are 

 often laid in the most injudicious way possible, slop- 

 ing and slanting across the rising. The plough had 

 one handle, and was in some respects good enough : 

 they chiefly use oxen. 



11. The fences of the first kind in Scania are very 

 good, and indeed peculiar to the country. They are 

 composed of every sort of wood easily raised ; turn a 

 corner, or mount and descend again with equal facil- 

 ity. They appear so frail that no beast will attempt 

 climbing over, and are too high to be leaped. They 

 are easily repaired. 



12. The milestones are more simple and useful than 



