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by the Brattefors Waterfall, which our guide-books 

 know nothing about, all through June 20 and 21, 

 making a catalogue of plants, including truffles, 1 and 

 drawing up a careful report from his survey of the 

 geology and mineralogy, which I condense from my 

 own observations, giving the guide-book measurements. 2 



The Kinnekulle, in size about twelve English miles 

 by five, occupies an isolated position on the east of the 

 Yenern. The hill surface is varied with forests and 

 broken by cliffs, ravines, and valleys, with an unusually 

 fertile soil and rich pasturages ; beautified in the 

 Swedish spring (that is, in June) with the abundant 

 blossom of wild cherry and apple trees. The hill pro- 

 file gives the aspect of ranges of terraces, like an 

 Assyrian palace mound magnified. The farms and 

 hamlets on the hill have each their own particular 

 climate and vegetation according to their zone, each 

 terrace marking a different geological formation. 



' The rocks consist of granite (gneiss ?), sandstone, 

 alum slate (red and grey), limestone, clay slate, and, 

 lastly, trap at the top, which has forced its way in a 

 liquid condition through all the strata beneath it.' 

 The uppermost stratum (Silurian in central Sweden) is 

 eruptive trap. 3 



This range of hills contains extensive quarries and 

 f numerous grottoes, of which the finest is the Morke- 

 klef, in which is a clear spring.' 4 Hogkullen, 771 feet 



1 Lycoperdon. 2 Baedeker's Sweden and Norway. 



* Du Chaillu. * Basdeker. 



