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the iron-mines and saw some solid copper and silver 

 ore, and he went out with a party to try the waters 

 of the chalybeate springs of Brattefors. He spent 

 Sunday in Philipstad, and on the 4th he was at Nora. 

 He remarks Linncea borealis in all these forests and 

 mountains. He stopped at Yusbitta, at a short dis- 

 tance west of Parsbarg, where he studied the minerals ; 

 reporting upon them of course. Fatigued as he is, he 

 never slackens work : this part of the journal shows as 

 much diligence as the beginning. 



Being at Sara" and Sarhytta, near the small lake of 

 Saxen, in the midst of a lake district, brought the 

 inland fisheries of Sweden to his attention. He was 

 now on the borders of Nerike and Westmanland, and 

 his arduous Westgothland journey was virtually over. 

 Of Grythytta, where he stopped on August 5, he says 

 it is a great village with a street and market-place, big 

 enough to be called a town. All about here is an iron 

 district. It is a pleasant road to the health-springs of 

 Loka. 



Linnasus slept at Hof Warna's on a peninsula rising 

 in the centre of the half-moon-shaped Lake Halfwars. 

 Travelling byNors, Karingeborn, Greks&sa, and Gytorp 

 to Bondeby, darkness overtook him before he found 

 night-quarters. 



On August 7 he visited the iron-foundries at Wede- 

 wag ; then, passing Blixterbo, he arrived for the night at 

 Fallingsbro the same place where he had found the 

 Linncea in flower on June 15. Now, on August 8, he 



