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complexioned female workers were so pretty! The 

 diary does not say so, however. The frequent farms 

 and villages of red and white painted houses set in the 

 sylvan scenery of wood and dale, and the numerous 

 boats on the silvery lake, make the soft and beautiful 

 scenery animated and still further interesting. The 

 costumes of the people are charming. The red bodices 

 of the women rowing the long boats, reflected in the 

 glassy Siljan Lake, are delightful in colour. Linnaeus's 

 whole party were hard at work observing, collecting, 

 and taking notes, alternately riding and boating. The 

 country, being nearly one-quarter of it covered with 

 water, seemed to leave to Emporelius, the fisherman 

 and zoologist, the lion's share of the work of observa- 

 tion. Still, the remaining fourth, intersected with 

 brooks and feeders to the lake was 'just the sort of 

 country to learn something in.' The yellow anemones 

 were over, and all in seed, but the delicate perfume of 

 the Linncea borecdis filled the air. The youths saluted 

 this graceful plant l by the name it was thenceforward 

 to bear, though the name was only printed on their 

 hearts as yet. Wild strawberries and raspberries grew 

 abundantly for their refreshing. 



So they passed by in their joy, like a dream, on the murmuring 

 ripple. 



Some of the party rode round the north bank of the 

 lake, passing through Kattvik, leaving Clewberg, Empo- 



1 Campanula serpyllifolia. 



