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( A tall and great stone cross stands just before the 

 eastern town gate. 1 It is covered with moss-grown 

 letters/ says Linnaeus, to whose diary I now return. 



June 24. ' Being St. John's Day, we went to church 

 in Wisby; Many of the inhabitants had built bowers 

 (making a kind of feast of tabernacles). Youths and 

 maidens held festival of games. 



' Next day, though we had ordered horses early, we 

 had to wait for them till afternoon. We travelled north- 

 ward on the west coast, by way of Korpelklint, a high 

 hill in the neighbourhood, about a quarter of a mile ' 

 [Swedish] ' from the town. The country here is tolerably 

 sloping, often as steep as an attic-roof. Ofwestequarn, 

 a mill in Lummelund parish lying one mile and a half 

 [Swedish] ' from Wisby on a stream of its own, here forms 

 a waterfall so high that it may be reckoned among the 

 most considerable in the kingdom. In Gothland, it is 

 certainly one of the highest. The river also is worthy of 

 notice from its rise in the swamp of Martebo, thence 

 flowing out one mile' [English] 'underground, under 

 hill and valley. It emerges at Ofwestequarn, at a 

 small hole about eight ells broad and four ells high. 2 

 Near Lummelund we found a vegetable, growing very 

 thickly, which has never yet been found in Sweden. 

 Earns was the name of this growth, that here grew 

 as underwood ; the root was a longish bristly bulb, the 



1 This monolithic cross, nine feet in height, marks the burial- 

 place of the Gothlanders who fell in the battle of July 27, 1361. 



3 The Swedish ell is 2 feet, the' fathom 3 ells. The Swedish foot 

 is 12 inches, the Swedish mile 11,700 English yards. 



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