LINN^US IN- 1734 AND I735. 399 



of Flora Dalecarlica, with their synonyma and their oeconomical and 

 pharmaceutical virtues, written by Baron Reutherholm. In zoology, 

 there is described, among many other curiosities, a magpie never de- 

 scribed before, which exists in the Dalecarlian Alps, and whose feet 

 are not armed like those of the other magpies with four claws, but 

 have only three, namely, two from before, and one from behind, 

 which is rather stronger than those in front. In domestic medicine, the 

 pleurisy is mentioned as a distemper of an epidemical nature in thai 

 country ; it is alledged, that it arises from the excess which the inhabitants 

 commit by gorging themselves with a kind of pap made of flour. It is 

 also observed, with regard to the inhabitants of the distritl of Orsa, that 

 they have the misfortune seldom to outlive thirty years of age, and 

 LiNNyEus is of opinion, that the complaint which they labour under is 

 an heftic fever, and arises from the pernicious exhalations of the mines. 

 The tour through Dakcarlia also mentions the Dalecarlian dances; 

 how the inhabitants masticate a certain kind of rosin, and dress it in a 

 still more disgusting manner as an aliment ; how they bury in the earth 

 a species of rotten fish, which is called Lunsjisk, and dig them out again 

 to prepare them for their food. The same transaftions describe a kind 

 of bed called Jullar^ in vehich the girls amuse themselves with their 

 lovers. In oeconomy the work expatiates on the particular prero- 

 gatives of Dakcarliat if compared with other Swedish provinces, how 

 these advantages may be farther improved, and all sorts of useful plants-- 

 cultivated on those Alps. 



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