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the Danish, and quite conspicuous : a pile of stone 

 roughly hewn and neatly put up, on the top a flat iron 

 plate or stone with the number of miles; but these are 

 confused in one respect, that they don't all count from 

 town to town, but often from mile to mile. 



Oct. 9. Our journey had been through forests, only 

 interrupted here and there by pieces of cultivated 

 plain, and occasionally great masses of rock, the inns 

 being generally bad. At one of them we had our 

 pistols broken, and one of them stolen. The excuse 

 was that they had been left out, and that there were 

 many passengers beside ourselves. But as our writ- 

 ing-desks and the rest of our luggage had been in our 

 bedrooms, and we never absent except for half an 

 hour while our supper was getting ready, and while 

 we were in the kitchen to hurry them with it, 

 we therefore never thought of examining desks or 

 luggage, and only found next day (October 10), on our 

 arrival at Jonkoping (a singular-looking town half 

 fortified on the "Wettern Sea), that our desks had been 

 opened and the greater part of the money taken. 

 October 10 was spent in going to the judge to have 

 a proclamation published, offering a reward through 

 all the churches, and in our writing to Copenhagen 

 to have the bills which had been taken stopped ; so 

 we did not leave Jonkoping till eleven at night, Our 

 carriage having now got a canvas covering on it, we 

 resolved to travel all night as soon as a driver could 

 be found ; and in the state of our broken arms, we 

 were comforted by being told that a Jew had been 



