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through Sudermania and came to Filja, where we waited 

 long for horses, and thence to Sodertelje ' [two Swedish 

 miles off], c a small place in a valley between two 

 heights, having the Malar Lake on one side and the 

 Baltic on the other.' This place, Sodertelje, is now a 

 station on the Gotha Canal. 



In Sodermanland one still sees remains of the former 

 distinctive costumes of the Swedish provinces, in the 

 large floating draperied caps of the handsome maidens 

 of VingSker (Ving alter sfticJcar). ' Further on the country 

 became more and more inhabited, with wide valleys, 

 tillage fields, and meadows. We came to Pihlkrog 



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towards evening, and hastened on thence to Aby l (two 

 Swedish miles), after we had, on account of being un- 

 accustomed to travel, taken a short night's rest. 



' Next day felt warm and pleasant after the cold of 

 last evening. We diverged to Trosa (within the island 

 fringe of the Baltic), but saw in the way on both sides 

 of the hill the red streaks which show that the moun- 

 tain contains copper. Trosa town lies close to the bay, 

 and is very small ; there is nothing more to be said of 

 it.' At Gleddeholm, ' a pretty, well-built, noble country 

 seat, with a garden full of spring flowers,' they de- 

 scribe the flowers and butterflies, or rather Linnaeus did 

 so : reading between the lines of this journal, we can 

 perceive that the rest of the party found the discom- 

 forts of travel surpass its charms. They get on better 

 by-and-by when they have shaken down in their saddles. 



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1 Not the Aby by Norrkoping. 



