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stances, sucli as the Viva intestinalis, growing on the 

 thatch or straw covering of houses, exposed to the sea, 

 and often moistened by sea water, I am not at all sur- 

 prised ; but to consider, as Dr. Pallas does, that a cal- 

 careous animal substance, such as a coralline, should 

 grow in common earth, above thirty miles from the sea, 

 is absurd, unnatural, and contrary to all experience.' 



Andrarum, further up this river to the westward, 

 was his next stopping-place ; here he inspected the alum- 

 works, and in his journal he goes deep into mineralogy. 

 Thence he returned to Kaflunda, and Kivik, on the sea- 

 board, where there are curious engraved monumental 

 stones, the only ones known in SkSne. 1 The beach 

 afforded him two closely-printed pages of description ; he 

 followed it on to Stenshufwud, ever describing. This 

 beach was like a museum ; it was also interesting to con- 

 trast this with the south-west coast of Sweden. He slept 

 at Rorum, and on June 1 still followed the coast to 

 Tiorndel and Cimbrishamn. This place, a small town in 

 his day, possessed abundant herds of sheep and some 

 English rams. In Sk&ne and some other places, he 

 says, ' the ram has sometimes four, six, or eight horns, 

 that part growing luxuriant to excess, like double 

 flowers.' He remembers having found hornless cows in 

 Angermania, with rudimentary horns under the skin. 2 

 Tomarup is the next halting-place on the way to Gars- 

 nas. He examined the slate-quarries with interest, and 



1 Prof. Nilson pronounces one of these to be Phcenician. 



2 Were the knot-cows so unusual in his day ? 



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