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skin, and tied round the ankle with strings. 

 (A representation of one of these shoes ac- 

 companies the last figure.) 



Hypericum {perforatum), Scrophularia 

 {nodosa)^ Bidens (cernua?) occurred to me 

 here, for the first time in all my journey. 

 The three species of Jxibes {ruhrum, alpi- 

 num and nigrum,) were in prodigious 

 abundance. 



September 25. 



At sun-rise I took my departure from 

 Wasa. The pines in the forest were strip- 

 ped of their bark, so that vast tracts were 

 covered with nothing but such naked trees. 

 No more was left on each trunk, to the 

 height of three ells or three and a half, 

 than a small strip of bark, about the breadth 

 of four fingers, generally on the north side, 



to prevent its being (here is a word not 



to be decyphered). The trees are left stand- 

 ing for six or seven years afterwards, and 

 are then cut down close to the roots, being 

 also headed a little above the naked part. 





