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of streets, some of them very long and not very nar- 

 row : a great number of mills on the islands, as at 

 Molby. The horses not being ready we sported the 

 courier, and got on with the last ones to Aby. It 

 began to grow foggy and disagreeable. My drowsi- 

 ness got the better of my driving, which became 

 rather ticklish, and frequently had near played the 

 devil ; however, got safe to Aby about half-past two, 

 but with the loss of our whip in an unlucky nap. 

 I slept on to Shrobek, giving up the whip. Found we 

 had missed the Koll by one hour, he having set off at 

 five. In our way on from the next inn we met the 

 provost-clerk with several funerals, the first we had 

 seen here. The coffin and mortcloth was laid in a 

 peasant's cart, like the gravel, and as we saw two or 

 three coffins at the same funeral, supposed every club 

 to bury on a Sunday in preference. The country is 

 of the same kind to Nykoping, where we arrived at 

 two, hungry nay, ravenous, having gone all night, 

 since six o'clock in the evening of yesterday, without 

 food. Ate a hearty dinner in a large and good inn, 

 where the rooms were indeed handsome. This town 

 is large and handsome, the streets are wide, and there 

 is a fine exchange or town-house. The country round 

 is very well cultivated. Indeed this is the best pro- 

 vince in Sweden in point of fertility. 



The agriculture from Molby, or even Jonkoping, 

 improves vastly, though the furrows are still too 

 wide, and not always raised enough. Great quantities 

 of cervises were growing wild these two days, the 



