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neat and even, which may probably be 

 owing to a mixture of clay in the sand ; or 

 perhaps it may have been smoothed by art. 

 Horizontal lines marked the yearly progress 

 of the water. The sun shone upon us this 

 morning, but was soon followed by rain. 



Elf-Carleby is two miles and a half further. 

 On its north side are several sepulchral 

 mounds. 



Here for the first time I beheld, what at 

 least I had never before met with in our 

 northern regions, the Pulsatilla apii folio 

 {^Anemone venialis), the leaves of which, 

 furnished with long footstalks, had two pair 

 of leaflets besides the terminal one, everyone 

 of them cut halfway into four, six or eight 

 segments. The calyx, if I may be allowed 

 so to call it, was placed about the middle 

 of the stalk, and was cut into numerous 

 very narrow divisions, smooth within, very 

 hairy without. Petals six, oblong ; the out- 

 ermost excessively hairy and purplish ; the 

 innermost more purple and less hairy ; all 



