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by way of sauce to their fresh fish, but I 

 thought them rather too acid. 



September 26. 



I passed Christina (Christinestadt), but 

 before coming to that place, noticed at 

 Nerpis a very extensive tract of land, which 

 had formerly been a fine meadow, the soil 

 being extremely good. But at present it 

 was so entirely overrun with tumps (origi- 

 nally perhaps formed of Carex ccBspitosa) 

 that it produced little or nothing. These 

 tumps were crowded almost over one an- 

 other, and were overgrown by Polytrichum 

 (Hair-moss), which had come to its full sta- 

 ture, and rendered most of them nearly 

 black. There was scarcely room for the 

 cattle to make their way to any food be- 

 tween the tumps. 



In the passages of all the houses hung 

 nets, used for catching bears. These are 

 made of ropes of Lindenbast, (the inner 

 bark of the lime-tree, Tilia europaa,) full 

 as thick as a bridle or rein. The meshes 



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