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into quarters by transverse ditches. The 

 river has washed away one of its banks so 

 fyr as ire ue tly to form a perpendicular 

 chfF, exhibiting strata of hght-coloured 

 barren sand, which must be supposed to 

 have been deposited there by water, as 

 they He horizo tally. The neighbouring 

 alps must have been the original boundaries 

 of the current, till the quantity of water 

 decreased. Then tha large river shaped 

 out its course, leaving several smaller chan- 

 nels, intersecting what is now the adjacent 

 plain, with islands between them. 



Half way between Svarlå and Harns I 

 met with the (Pedicularis) Sceptriim Caro- 

 limim, first observed by Professor Rudbeck. 

 This stately plant was not yet in flower. It 

 grew in a dry soil. In the neighbouring 

 watery places grew a new species of Marsh 

 JRanimcidus, (R. lapponicus,) having a 

 calyx of three pale reflexed leaves, five or 

 six narrow acute rue-like yellow petals, 

 more upright than usual, their claws each 

 furnished with a scale. Stamens nine to 



