TOUR IN SKANE 263 



he laid himself up with an attack of nervous headache 

 a malady to which he was subject. He recommends 

 light wine as a cure, though he says he does not care to 

 take wine away from home, anywhere he is not sure of 

 its being very good. 



It is doubtful if he went to Copenhagen, which lies 

 so temptingly visible from Malmo. He does not men- 

 tion doing so, but as a visit to the Danish capital would 

 have been non-official he need not have included it in 

 his official journal. 



In the afternoon of the 17th he travelled from 

 Malmo towards Hiely 1 and Tullstorp. The trees rustled 

 with the refreshing music of June. He admired the 

 country and its soil, a fine whitish loam, and the white 

 chalk hills, though these are less lofty than those of Moen 

 Island in Denmark, opposite, which glitter dazzHngly 

 white. On the 18th he inspected the clothworks of 

 Messrs. Hagardte, and their garden, and travelled on the 

 19th through what he calls the noblest land upon earth, 

 Sweden's great granary, a northern Flanders, a grand 

 convexity without mountains, hills, rivers, stones, lakes, 

 woods, and bushes, but a waving cornland such as is rarely 

 seen in Sweden. In 1885, September 7, the 'Times' says, 

 English soil produces more wheat to the acre than any 

 other country, with the single exception of Denmark/ 

 It might have added SkSne, part of ancient Denmark. 



Through this delightful region, so novel in appear- 

 ance to him, Linnaeus journeyed on to Trelleborg, on the 

 1 Hyllie. 



