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was wet. At the ends there were water-furrows to lead 

 off the water. For this summer this was left to lie 

 fallow, and would be sown with wheat in the following 

 autumn. Farther up in the same field where the soil 

 was drier, the field was laid out in Ten-bouts-land, or so 

 that each ridge, ryggning, consisted of 20 furrows. 

 The breadth of such a land was 11 feet (5J aln.). They 

 were highest in the middle and sloped on both sides. 



Svalor. Swallows appeared to-day for the first 

 time this year. 



Kaniner deras hemvist &c. Rabbits, their 

 dwellings, &c. 



We came before dinner, middagen, to a plain, 

 slatt, which was very much overgrown with brackens 

 Ormbunkar. It was nearly surrounded by ploughed 

 fields. On this warren, fait, which was fenced round 

 with planks, plankor, we saw a great many rabbits, 

 of a grey colour, which had their residence here. The 

 ground was quite full of the holes which they had dug, 

 and into which they ran down, as soon as one came 

 somewhat near them. They were said all to belong to 

 a gentleman, who lived not far from thence. In one place 

 and another there were traps, fallor, set to catch them. 

 These traps exactly resemble a kind of traps which are 

 set for large rats. [T. I. p. 351. J They are knocked 

 together of four boards, like a long box, lada. At each 

 end hangs a perpendicular board, like a door, which by 

 a specially contrived arrangement above the trap, 

 resembled a brunns hink, or hatch of a stream, and 

 can be hoisted up so that the entrance to the trap stands 

 open. In the middle of the trap, an iron pin or a little 

 wooden rod goes cross-wise, and as soon as the rabbit 

 climbs on to this and presses it down, a pin on the 



