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Lake was on their right, but they crossed the river 

 again above Sarna, keeping the Idre Lake on the left and 

 the Stadjan Mount on their right. It is three Swedish 

 miles hence to Idre a poor hamlet, with scattered farms. 

 The present carriage-road ends here. It was merely a 

 bridle-path in Linnseus's time. The forest path leading 

 to Norway was then the roughest of tracks. They could 

 not make much headway on horseback through the 

 forest ; they found it easier to dismount and lead the 

 animals. 



' Better so for my trade,' said Claes Sohlberg the 

 botanist, holding up a prize specimen of Andromeda 

 florecceruleo. This was on July 16. 



f He who is afraid of leaves must not come into a 

 wood,' said Nasman the proverbial philosopher. 



* I expected to find so many more birds as we came to 

 the deeper forests,' said Emporelius ; 4 we never hear a 

 song here.' 



' That is because autumn is coming on,' said several 

 of them. i Sweden is always silent in autumn : one hears 

 only whisperings from the wood.' 



c It is a general mistake,' said their leader, ' to expect 

 to find song-birds in the deep forests : they cannot find 

 their food there ; while their enemies the larger birds 

 hawks and owls, that feed on flesh are more abundant. 1 

 The song-bird is the friend of man, and loves his neigh- 

 bourhood, which includes his corn-fields and fruit- 

 gardens.' 



1 Lowell also notices this. 



