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along the shadeless windy road to Danmark, with the 

 view of Upsala's towers and spires on the heights to the 

 left. Danmark church, which Linnaeus attended as a 

 parishioner, is a red-brick, round-arched, square-towered, 

 village church, ' founded by St. Erik's widowed queen, 

 who, grateful for the defeat and death of Magnus, mur- 

 derer of her lord, raised a church upon the battle-field, 

 and called it Danmark.' We drank from Danmark pump, 

 and inquired the way to Hammarby. There was no 

 lack of ready information. An old woman slid out like 

 an eel from between the bars of a straw-waggon. She 

 knew all about it ; ' Ach ! ja ; Linnaeus's Hammarby.' 



Here the country began to remind us of Sten- 

 brohult, with rocks showing glacial friction, set with fir 

 trees and anemones. ' Ah, this is like Linnaeus's old 

 house " at home," ' we said. It poured enlightenment 

 on his choice of this place as an ancestral home for his 

 children. We could well fancy his finding this place 

 while a poor student and looking back fondly to the 

 spot when he had become a great man. 



The old woman showed us a short-cut by way of 

 her cottage ; and, in her profuse good-nature, she stuck 

 to us like Sindbad's old man of the sea. At length she 

 left us, and after a time of enjoying the woodland paths, 

 as they grew complicated and the trees dense, we re- 

 membered having heard that elks are often killed in the 

 woods near Upsala, and, having seen varieties of their 

 horns displayed in the hall at the Stadhuset Hotel, we 

 felt, as unprotected females always do, a longing for 



