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TRAVELS 
trials do not now produce the fame grain, or quantity of grain, as 
formerly. Traces of furrows, now overgrown with heath or mofs, 
are every where found on moors and the brows of hills, in Scot¬ 
land, Wales, and the North of England; and alfo in Sweden, 
Norway, and even in Iceland. It appeared remarkable that the 
wildelb fpots through which we palfed in our way from Helfing- 
burg to Gothenburg, and from thence to the capital, were not 
covered with heath, but mofs, or a coarfe kind of grafs commonly 
called bent grafs. The fliocks of corn and what hay there is in 
Sweden are all placed on wooden frames, raifed feverai feet above 
the ground. The fheaves of corn fet up to dry in the fields are 
not placed in two parallel rows, inclining towards and meeting 
each other at the top, with two cap or hooding-fheaves, but in 
a circular form, and covered with one hooding-fheaf expanded at 
the end, for warding off the rain. 
The fhepherds in Sweden, as w r ell as in Iceland, have horns 
made of birch-wood. Two excavated pieces of birch-wood are 
clapped clofe together, and bound tightly round with the bark of 
the fame tree ; fo that one circular pipe is formed. The found 
made with this horn is flirill and woodland, but not unpleafant. 
The fheep and cattle will come together at certain places and 
times, obedient to this call. It is in the fame manner that the 
cattle are colle&ed by the herdfmen of the Alps. What I faw 
of the fouth of Sw r eden affords certainly nothing very flriking to 
the eye, yet as the country is altogether agreeably varied, and in 
other refpedts offers much novelty of obfervation, it makes an in- 
terefling 
