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Jarn-broddar. Iron Crampoons for climbing 

 up trees uith. * 



At the house of a labourer I to-day got to see a par- 

 ticular kind [T. I. p. 234] of iron crampoons, which they 

 use when they wish to climb up in any tree, either to take 

 young squirrels, Ikorn-ungar, rooks'-nests, Krakbon, 

 or anything else ; for as the trees here, for example the 

 beeches, are for many fathoms in their lower part en- 

 tirely without branches, and quite smooth, they can get 

 up in no other way than by ladders, or with these cram- 

 poons. The former were too costly, and difficult to 

 carry everywhere with them, but the latter 

 not so. Their shape can best be seen from 

 the accompanying Figure, where C B A 

 D shows the whole crampoon, which is 

 of iron, and D E the strap or band by 

 which it is bound- fast to the leg. A B is 

 the part of the crampoon which comes 

 to be under the shoes, and on which one 

 stands when one climbs up. The length 

 of the space between A and B is just fitted 

 to the breadth of the shoes. C is the 

 verypointof the crampoon, sjelfva uden 

 pa bradden, which is always on the 

 inner side of the foot towards the tree. 

 The length from F to C is just two fingers 

 wide. It is whetted as sharp as the 

 sharpest and keenest knife's point that 

 one may so much the better be able to 

 strike into the tree with it. This point, 

 Tldd, does not slope off in an acumen, like 



* "Crampoons (Crampons F.), pieces of iron hooked at the ends, for 

 the drawing or pulling up of timber, stones, &C-' Bailey, Eng Die, 15th 

 Ed. 1753- 



