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is about an eighth of a mile ' [Swedish] ' broad and a 

 mile long. Sando, an outlying island, lies five miles ' 

 [Swedish] < from F&ro out at sea, and belongs to the pas- 

 torate of F&ro. There are seals and porpoises 1 in plenty. 

 The whale- and salmon-fishery is very conveniently car- 

 ried on at F&ro, and nowhere with greater profit. The tar 

 which is here extracted is clear and light brown the true 

 Gothland tar, burnt from clear roots. Some of these roots 

 have lain several centuries in the earth. We came in the 

 evening to F&ro Church, half a mile ' [Swedish] ' from 

 the sound, and stayed there the night. We examined 

 the church in the morning. By the altar stood a note- 

 worthy painting representing fifteen men, and near it 

 several rhymes by which one understood that in 1603 

 these fifteen people went sealing on the ice ; the ice got 

 loose and carried them off to Sando. The names and 

 rhymes are in Danish. Several runic stones lay, as usual, 

 in the churchyard. It was impossible to read them : the 

 Lichen calcarius had filled up all the letters. Arundo 

 arenaria, the ' helm ' of the Dutch, grew on and covered 

 the sand-hills. The northernmost point of F&ro has 

 nothing remarkable besides a level beach, on which the 

 sea has washed outlines of crag-like figures. Our re- 

 turn journey was by the west side, near which are 

 two sand-islets. We rested another night in FSro 

 Church. 



1 June 30. Recrossed FSro Sound, and examined 

 Bunga Church, one of the handsomest we had seen in 

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