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ÅNGERMANLAND. 



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No. 1 is a plough drawn by a horse, 

 b, b, is a strong thick-backed knife, placed 

 in the middle of the plough, and serving 

 to cut straight lines through the grassy 

 turf, which in the course of five or six years 

 has accumulated on the soil. 



No. 2 is used immediately afterwards, 

 to cut tne clods of turf from their base and 

 turn them up. Of this a is the handle, as 

 in No. 1, held by the ploughman's right 

 hand ; b the main beam of the plough ; 

 c the pait which goes under the surface of 

 the ground, and is terminated in the fore 

 part by the plough-share d, which is 

 formed obliquely, turning towards the out- 

 side, not towards the man who guides the 



