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MEDELPAD. 



Between Gnarp and the post-house of 

 Dingersjö stands the boundary mark be- 

 tween Helsingland and Medelpad or Me- 

 delpadja, consisting of two posts, one oji 

 each side the road. Here I began to per- 

 ceive the common Ling, Ei'ica, to grow 

 more scarce, its place being supplied by a 

 greater quantity of the Bilberry ( Vaccinium 

 Myrtillus). Birch trees became more 

 abundant as I advanced. On the left of 

 the road are large mountains of granite. 

 At the foot of those rocks the whole coun- 

 try was covered with stones, about twice 

 as large as a man's fist, of a greyish green 

 colour, lying in heaps, and covered with a 

 fine coating of moss, seeming never to have 

 been disturbed. 



I had scarcely passed the limits of 

 Helsingland, when I perceived a brace of 

 Ptarmigans (Tetrao Lagopus) in the road, 

 but could not get near enough to fire at 

 them. Viewed through my spying-glgiss, they 

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