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LINNAEUS' IN I734 AND 1735. 
of Flora Dalccarlica , with their synonyma and their (Economical 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 dome 1 ledicine, the 
pleurisy is mentioned as a distemper of an epidemical nature in that 
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 district of Orsa, that 
they have the misfortune seldom to outlive thirty years of age, and 
LiNNfus is of opinion, that the complaint which they labour under is 
an heCtic fever, and arises from the pernicious exhalations of the mines. 
The tour through Dalecarlia 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 transactions describe a kind 
of bed called Jullar , in which the girls amuse themselves with their, 
lovers. In ceconomy the work expatiates on the particular prero* 
gatives of Dalecarlia , 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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