ÅNGERMANLAND. 



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plough ; e is placed on the top horizontally, 

 reaching to the base of the plough-share, 

 serving; to turn over the clods. The whole 

 is drawn by a horse, the only kind of ani- 

 mal used here in husbandry. 



No. 3, p. 65, is a hoe, which, when fur- 

 nished with a handle, serves to pare the 

 earth from the under side of the turfs, after 

 they are turned over by the machine last 

 described. The first year after this opera^ 

 tion they sow rye, but in the following 

 season barley, when the turfs are become 

 rotten. 



WESTERBOTTEN, or WESTBOTHLAND. 



The ground here is tolerably level; the 

 soil sand, sometimes clay. In some places 

 are large tracts of moss. The whole coun- 

 try, owing to the sand and the moss, is 

 by no means fertile, though it affords a 

 good deal of milk. Barley is the chief 

 corn raised here, rye being very seldom 

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