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runs on as many bridges. The small Tial ward's Isle lay 

 in our way ; it is somewhat lofty one can see it was 

 once joined to the mainland. It is named from a certain 

 Thielward (Thjelvar) who landed here before the birth of 

 Christ and well-nigh captured Gothland. The spruce- 

 fir forest through which we journeyed hence was pretty 

 considerable, reaching to Gothem's Joen ' [two lakelets 

 in the river]. ' South of the river (which here divides 

 Gothland nearly in half in a line from Wisby) pines 

 were more numerous. 



1 The priest's house at Gothem seemed, from the 

 thickness of its walls, to have been part of a monastery. 

 The church is fine : the men and women sang hymns 

 antiphonally. In the choir lay a large runic stone with 

 a long inscription. A kind of clay famous for making 

 tobacco-pipes is sent from here to Stockholm.' Linnaeus 

 goes at some length into the mineralogy of this part, 

 but, alas ! he had not hit upon a porcelain clay. 



1 July 3. From Gothem we travelled to Ostergarn, 

 riding the whole way through woods of pointed-leafed 

 trees. Thorsburg (196 feet), the only rising ground in this 

 neighbourhood, lay more than of a mile ' [Swedish] 

 1 from Kraklingebo. On the summit of this hill is 

 a small wood. Wild horses are found and caught here. 

 On the road to Ostergarn we had the luck to fall in with 

 Schoenus mariscus ' [growing ?] ' on a roof. Koofs made 

 with this grass are very lasting. 



Ostergarn Church lies on the east coast, nearly in 

 the middle of the island, which between this and Wester- 



