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and make us lose the track : at length we left it to be 

 made out between the innkeeper and the learned land- 

 inspector. 



'The country is splendidly green hereabout; the 

 houses are thatched with birch-bark and straw. Hence 

 we went to Smedby, and from here to Mockleby, where 

 the alum slate-quarries are. Here I had the mishap to 

 crush my left foot with a great stone falling from a 

 wall, and was compelled to lie up for a while in the inn 

 at Mockleby until able to get on to Ahlbrunneby at 

 Ottenby, in the southern end of the island. Here we 

 found the people pretty considerably alarmed at us, and at 

 our travels, so that we were in a manner obliged to go on 

 to the inn at Nasby . Most of us stayed the night with the 



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comminister at Ahs, where we rested through Sunday. 



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1 As we left the chaplain's at Ahs people came fol- 

 lowing us out of the villages to look upon us as a curi- 

 osity. We travelled still southward to the southernmost 

 point of Oland, through the Ottenby woods and zoologi- 

 cal gardens. The sea-birds here were various and nume- 

 rous.' Linnaeus gives a list of their names. He also 

 describes the wild scenery of the springs of Kiar- 

 rekusa, near Kiarre, in the extreme south of the island* 

 These fountains made a considerable impression on his 

 memory. 



'The journey now began backwards through the 

 Ottenby district. We followed the eastern coast up- 

 wards by Eketorpsborg and its ruins to Grasgard's 

 Inn, examining Trebyborg, which lay not far out of our 



