234 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



the point of a knife, but is more obtuse, and more nearly 

 resembles a small punch, hugg-barr, yet the point is 

 not quite so obtuse, trubbig, but more oval. If it were 

 as narrow-pointed as a knife, it could not then possibly 

 be so strong, but would more easily break off. 



[T. I. p. 235. J Jarn-spik funnen midt i en tra. 



An iron nail found in the middle of a tree. 



Some carls were engaged to-day in sawing up some 

 stocks into boards. As they were sawing a thick log, 

 klabb, of ash in half they could not for a time get the 

 sawblade to advance much, but several teeth therein broke 

 off. In the end, after they had with much trouble got 

 the log sawn in two, and would look what the reason was 

 that the saw stuck so, they found a large iron nail in the 

 middle of the tree. It was on all sides so grown round 

 by the tree, that we could scarcely see otherwise than that 

 it had grown there, for there was no rottenness visible in 

 the tree round it. It was probably knocked into the tree 

 when it was young, and afterwards became thus sur- 

 rounded and enclosed by the tree. 



The $rd April, 1748. 



Kaninors slagt ocb. gallning. The slaughtering and 

 gelding of rabbits. 



Mr. Ellis told me that they here used to slaughter 

 rabbits in the same way as a pig or other animal is 

 slaughtered, viz., that they stick it in the throat and so 

 tap out the blood, when the flesh will be much more 

 agreeable than when they are killed in the usual way, 

 with a blow on the nape of the neck, or as hares, Harar, 

 are killed. He believed he was the first who had begun 

 thus to take their lives by drawing off the blood. He 

 also told me that he always caused some of the bucks to 



