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painted black, but coloured red by boil- 

 ing large pieces of the inner bark of the 

 birch. When this liquor begins to cool, 

 the nets are immersed in it. 



May 20. ' 



In some places the cows were without 

 horns ; a mere variety of the common 

 kind, and not a distinct species. Nor have 

 they been originally formed thus ; for 

 though in them the most essential charac- 

 ter of their genus is, as to external appear- 

 ance, wanting, still rudiments of horns are 

 to be found under the skin. A contrary 

 variety is observable, in Scania and other 

 places, in the ram, which has sometimes 

 four, six or eight horns, that part growing 

 luxuriant to excess, like double flowers. 



The forests chiefly consist of the Hoary- 

 leaved Alder. Birch trees here also bear 

 abundance of matted branches. To what- 

 ever side I cast my eyes, nothing but lofty 

 mountains were to be seen. Not far from 

 ^ssja the little Strawberry-leaved Bramble 

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