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of the 18th of August, and had been visible 

 for a week past, so early does it begin here. 



The rowers of the boat in which I pur- 

 sued mj progress had blisters on their hands 

 caused by pulling at the oars. Their spe- 

 cific was the ladle with which they had just 

 been stirring the pot where fish was boil- 

 ing. This they applied, hot as it was, to 

 the part affected, and the blisters disap- 

 peared. 



What is here called Taim is a sort of 

 salmon, two spans in length at most, the 

 tail scarcely cloven, the mouth not hooked, 

 but otherwise like the common kind. (This 

 is probably the Salmo salar in a young 

 state ; and may perhaps be the Laximgc, 

 or Salmo minor, vulgari shnilis, Artedi 

 Spec. 50, not 80, mentioned in Fauna 

 Suecica, ed. 2. 122, though Linnaeus has 

 no allusion there to the Taim.) 



Ås soon as the corn is carried from the 

 field, it is usual to thrash it slightly, that 

 whatever is loose may come away, and 

 not be lost in the barn, as also that the 



