78 WESTBOTHLAND. 



parts ; for the fields consist principally of 

 marshy tracts, whose herbage is but of a 

 coarse kind. 



On mv inquiring what I could have for 

 supper, they set before nie the breast of a 

 Cock of the wood i^Vetrao Urogalhis), which 

 had been shot and dressed some time the 

 preceding year. Its aspect was not very 

 invitino- and I imaoined the flavour would 

 not be much better ; but in this respect I 

 was mistaken. The taste proved delicious, 

 and I wondered at the is^norance of those 

 who, having more fowls than they know- 

 how to dispose of, suffer many of them to 

 be spoiled, as often happens at Stockholm. 

 I found with pleasure that these poor Lap- 

 landers know better than some of their 

 more opulent neighbours, how to employ 

 the <iood thinjrs which God has bestowed 

 upon them. After the breast is plucked, 

 separated from the other parts of the bird, 

 and cleaned, a gash is cut longitudinally 

 on each side of the breast-bone, quite 

 through to the bottom, and two others 



