PEEPAEATIONS FOR THE JOURNEY. 23 



seen in the north. At each post-station is a day- 

 book, in which the traveller enters his name, where 

 he is bound for, etc. ; and if he has any complaint 

 to make here, he books it. In each day-book is 

 entered the distance to the next -stage, and the 

 charge ; so there is not half the trouble in post- 

 ing through Sweden that the stranger would 

 imagine. This day-book is sent in to the lands- 

 man at the end of each month, and a new one 

 issued. The postmaster is usually a better class 

 of peasant, always civil and well-behaved, espe- 

 cially towards a foreigner. Most of the inns are 

 furnished with a bill of fare hung up in the tra- 

 vellers' room ; and, as it may not be uninteresting 

 to the English reader, I insert a tariff (dated 

 Sept. 12, 1861) which I copied from an inn a 

 little north of Herinosand : 



*. a. 



A best meal (three dishes) . 1 



s. d. 

 A kanna of small beer . . 1 J 



One not quite so good ..08 i A bread cake 01 



Twenty eggs 10 



A cup of coffee 01 



Best bed (down mattress) . 1 

 One not quite so good ..08 



A bed of straw 04 



A fire of birch wood . . . 1J 

 One of fir or pine .... 1 

 A kanna (4 bottles) ale . .0 4 



Two feeds of oata .... 4 

 201b. clover hay .... 9 

 Do. meadow hay . . . . 4| 

 A tallow candle, 6 to the Ib. . 1| 

 Four bottles sweet milk ..03 



Do. sour 01 



lib. butter 09 



Stabling for a horse . . . Ik 



Robbery or extortion is rarely, if ever, heard 

 of on the Swedish roads. In the summer the 



