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art had afterwards merely cleared away the 

 fragments of stone. The entrance is suffi- 

 ciently large to afford a full view of the 

 inside, occupying an eighth part of the 

 whole. Drops of water trickle down from 

 the roof near one of the sides. Some spe- 

 cies of Pohj podium, the Asple?ihim Tricho- 

 manes, and other ferns, grow on the ad- 

 jacent parts of the mountain. Before the 

 orifice of this cavern grew a Sallow tree, 

 which when king Charles XI. passed this 

 way was cut down, and, having grown up 

 again, was a second time felled by the in- 

 habitants*". 



Having taken leave of this mountain, I 

 had scarcely continued my journey a quar- 

 ter of a mile before I found a great part of 



* This cavern has been visited by other naturalists 

 since the time of Linnaeus, among whom was Dr. 

 Olof Swartz, the present Bergian Professor of Botany 

 at Stockholm, well known by his various excellent 

 publications, who gathered here the same Byss7is 

 {cryptarum) which Linnaeus found in the other ca- 

 vern at Brunaesberget. Both their original specimens 

 are now in my possession. 



