34 HELSINGLAND, 



Matj 17. 



Continuing my journey at sunrise, I saw 

 some sepulchral mounds near the church 

 of Jättedahl. As soon as I had passed 

 the forest, I overtook seven Laplanders 

 driving their reindeer, which were about 

 sixty or seventy in number followed by 

 their young ones. Most of the herd 

 had lost their horns, and new ones were 

 sprouting forth. I asked the drivers what 

 could have brought them so far down into 

 the country. They replied that they w^ere 

 born here near the sea coast, and intended 

 to end their lives here. They spoke good 

 Swedish. 



Near the post-house at Gnarp, to the 

 westward, grows a birch tree, with more 

 than fifty or sixty of those singularly matted 

 and twisted branches which this tree some- 

 times produces. 



