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roof, so that some of these roofs somewhat resembled the 

 so-called Italian roofs. The carl who accompanied us 

 said that these roofs are subject to great risk of fire and 

 sparks, whence it happens that they are now beginning 

 to provide themselves with tile roofs, tegel-tak, as fast 

 as they can afford to. The roof-tile, taktegel, which 

 they use here for their roofs is almost always of the 

 square kind,* and flat like shingles, tak-spau. They 

 are made and burnt from the yellow earth, which is found 

 everywhere about here. In many places they had at least 

 tiles on the cottage, or the part of the cottage, in which 

 the fire was, still there were a great many cottages 

 thatched with straw thatch. 



Tre-hjulad vagn, at kora sad, &c, med. 



Three-wheeled wagon to carry seed, &c, with. 

 At Dagnal we saw a little vagn with three wheels to 

 carry seed, harrows, ploughs, etc. in, on to the fields, and 

 for other purposes. The diameter of the wheels, which 

 were all the same size, was 2 feet. Above the cart, 

 karran, was an awning, skriuda, of 6 good [T. I. p. 

 281] feet long and 3 feet broad. The wheels were set so 

 that one stood in front and two behind, side by side, as in 

 a cart, karra. The front wheel was fastened to and ran 

 in the shafts, exactly like the wheel on a wheel-barrow, 

 where it would nevertheless have been better if it had 

 been so arranged that in turning it could have been able 

 to turn itself about in the same way as the front wheels 

 under a wagon. f 



Rariteten af kallor, back or, och aar har pa 



orten. 



The rarity of springs, becks, and rivers in this district. 

 It was remarkable that in the whole of this district 



* And still is, 1886. I have seen no pantiles in this district. [J. L.] 

 f Similar wagons are now used by railway contractors. [J. L.] 



