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When the thatch-roof is to be lifted higher up, a carl 

 climbs up at each corner and lifts it up with his shoulders, 

 when a thick iron pin is set in one of the holes, as high as 

 one wishes to have it, on which pin the roof is then rested. 

 When the rcof was lifted up, the corners of the roof-plate 

 went up close by the posts. If they wished to lower it 

 further down, the pins were taken out, so that it gently 

 descended as far as was desired. The thickness of the 

 straw on the thatch-roof was 9 inches. The stack was 

 now full of hay, loaded up to 4 feet below the roof. 



[T. I. p. 257. J Af hvadvaxterhoetharstadesbestod. 

 What plants the hay in this place consisted of. 



As the grass-growth on the meadows and pastures at 

 this time of year was so short and cropped by the cattle 

 that I could not possibly distinguish the plants and herbs, 

 de vaxter OCh drter, of which the grass sward here 

 consisted, we devoted a couple of hours to ransacking 

 the hay here in the lathes, and in seeking out and register- 

 ing all kinds of plants which were found therein, that 

 we might from that be able to judge of the goodness of 

 the hay, I will, as far as practicable, place them in the 

 order of their abundance, so that the plants, which were 

 found here in the greatest numbers, have the honour to 

 stand first, while those of which there were found the 

 least of all, come to be left to the last. 



They were the following : — 



[i.J Lotus. Loti-corniculatce major species J [ohann] 

 B[auhin]. Raj. Syn. 334. I could not find in what this 

 differed from Lotus s. Melilotus pentaphyllos minor 

 glabra C[aspar] B[auhin], which especially occurs with 

 us in" Sweden. A boy who was with us called it Lady- 

 finger grass. [Anthyllis vulneraria, Kidney Vetch.] I 

 afterwards carried a plant of it home to Mr. Ellis, and 

 asked if it was hot his Lady -finger grass which he praises 



