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which was as hot as when bread is taken out of it ; for if 

 the heat is too great all the fat melts. When the speci- 

 men had remained a short time in the oven it was taken 

 out to cool. It was again put in the oven, and left 

 there till it was quite dry ; for the trick consists in this, 

 that it must not be dried too quickly, but gradually 



Afterwards, if one wishes to carry them 



anywhere, they are laid in casks, tunnor, or such like, 

 snuff is sprinkled over and in them, to drive away moth, 

 mal, and other injurious insects, skade-krak. Fish 

 are best preserved in spiritu Vint. 



[T. I. p. 422.J 



Hvart land har Sin Sed. 



Each country has its -peculiar customs in one thing and 

 another, and so it is in England. I believe there is 

 scarcely a country where one gets to see so many 

 Peruques as here. I will not mention that nearly all the 

 principal ladies, and also a part of the commoner folk, 

 wear Peruques, but I only speak of the men, who in short, 

 all wore them. The boy was hardly in breeches before 

 he came out with a Peruque on his head, which was 

 sometimes not much smaller than himself. It did not, 

 therefore, strike one as being at all wonderful to see 

 farm-servants, Bonde-dranger, clodhoppers, Torpare, 

 day-labourers, dagsverks-karlar, Farmers, Bonder, 

 in a word, all labouring-folk go through their usual 

 every-day duties all with Peruques on the head. Few, 

 yea, very few, were those who only wore their own hair. 

 I had to look around a long time in a church [T. 1. 

 p. 423] or other gathering of people, before I saw any- 

 one with his own hair. I asked the reason for the 

 dislike of, and the low estimation in which they here 

 held their own hair ? The answer was, that it was 

 nothing more than the custom and mode. Here in 



