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report, then the botanist's (Sohlberg, whose day's public 

 work is over early). The American c economist ' makes 

 the most drawings, even more than Hedenblad, whose 

 especial function it is ; he makes sketches of tools, 

 appliances, and anything that hits his fancy as a 

 c notion.' The first day's report is the neatest of all. 

 It is a general experience ; one writes most, the fullest 

 diary, on the day of leaving home ; one's blood is up 

 and one is not yet tired ; all is hope and expectation. 

 Nasman, the geographer, made a large careful map on 

 time-browned paper, marking in water-colour the streams 

 where they rise from lakes looking like leaves at the end 

 of branches. The churches are all marked as far as Idre. 

 The map itself goes no farther up. 



They left Falun on July 3, 1734, the seven Dale- 

 carlians (including the two young Eeuterholms) as 

 eagerly on the watch as the others for natural objects 

 as yet unobserved by them. They were eager to dis- 

 tinguish themselves in the diary. 1 The high road to 

 Leksand 2 just after leaving Falun, covered with masses 

 of mineral refuse, and bare of vegetation, presents 

 much the aspect of the bleaker Cornish mining dis- 

 tricts, with the range of the Stora Kopparberg forming 

 a dreary barrier between it and the pleasanter parts of 

 the world. There is a luxuriant vegetation outside 

 Falun beyond the range of the fumes from the smelting- 

 works. The mines of these ' big copper hills ' have been 



1 The Reuterholms never write in the journal. 

 8 Spelt Lixan in the MS. 



