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I know of none that presents a fairer opening to a farmer pos- 

 sessed of a small capital, but with a good knowledge of his business 

 and a hearty will, than Sweden. There exists, over all, a good feel- 

 ing between the Swedes and English. There is scarcely a farm in 

 the country which could not be improved doubly with a little 

 capital and a few years' proper management j and when he once 

 acquired a knowledge of the language and manners of the people, 

 the emigrant would have no trouble to get on. 



I have endeavoured above, as far as I am able (for I must fairly 

 confess to the reader, that, like old Jorrocks's boy Benjamin, " I 

 don't profess to be a farmer,") to give a general insight into the 

 agriculture of the country, and I have been careful rather to be 

 under the mark than over it in my farming statistics. All I can say 

 is, if this should meet the eye of anyone who is about to emigrate 

 to more distant climes, I think it might be worth his while to turn 

 his attention nearer home j and I can only add, that Sweden just 

 now offers a good opening for a practical, hard-working farmer, with 

 small capital 3 but I should never recommend a man to invest one 

 shilling in land here in any way until he had spent a year in one 

 of the numerous farming schools which exist in the country, for it 

 would not be the slightest use a man commencing farming opera- 

 tions in Sweden till he understood somethino;' of the lano^uas^e and 

 habits of the people among whom he intended to settle — that is, if 

 he means to conduct his l^rm like an English farmer, and manage 

 it himself. 



We will now turn to another subject, and say a few words on the 

 ichthyology of this land, which is as rich in "flood" as it is in 

 ** fell j" and as I resided for some time in its neighbourhood, I will 

 commence with a short description of the Lake Wenern. 



The Wenern is, next to Ladoga, the second largest inland lake 

 in Europe, lying between 58"" and 60° north latitude, and about 

 sixty English miles from the North Sea, into which it empties 

 itself through the Gotha river, running into the Cattegat at Gothen- 

 burg. The length of this magnificent lake is about seventy 

 English miles, its breadth in places about forty, and it is computed 



