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above parts, with the marrow-bones, which 

 they break to get at the marrow. The 

 heads and feet of ,shecp, goats, and hogs, 

 are salted and dried, being, when wanted, 

 boiled with pease, and not ill-tasted. The 

 legs of sheep, cut off at the knee, are often 

 boiled fresh; the fat which floats on the top 

 beino- collected and preserved in a horn or 

 pot, as very useful to grease small ropes, 

 and wheels. The legs and feet thus boiled 

 are afterwards thrown away, not eaten. 

 The head and feet of a calf are usually 

 pickled. 



For fire-wood these people use birch- 

 wood. They burn no candles in their 

 houses. They go to smoke themselves 

 with the Finlanders in their huts. 



The hay is mown here in the same man- 

 ner as in Upland, and the corn is managed 

 in the same way as in Smoland. When th* 

 season is dry, they prefer drying the corn 

 in heaps in the open air, as before descri- 

 bed ; but in wet weather they have re- 

 course to .sheds. The hay is spread out 



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