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no doubt confidered it as a warning of danger. The country 
people have a fuperftitious notion, that foxes and wolves are of¬ 
fended at being called by their fpecific names, and that they take 
vengeance for this infult on their poultry, and other domefticated 
animals; for this reafon they call the foxes brown legs, and the 
wolves grey legs, in the fame manner as the people of Sumatra 
give good names to the tyger. 
During the whole of this route from Stockholm to Grille- 
hamn, the traveller muft not think of flopping either to eat or 
fleep ; I mean to fay, that there are no inns to be met with as in 
other parts of Europe. He mull carry his provifons along with 
him, for the poor peafants have feldom any thing befides bread 
and milk, or fometimes falted provifons, not always agreeable to 
travellers. Their bread is flat round cakes, made for the mofl 
part of barley or rye, with holes in the middle, through which a 
firing pafles for flinging a number of them on their backs when 
they go abroad to the woods, or fields, or a-fifhing. Potatoes are 
by no means common among them, which is owing, I imagine, 
to the difficulty they find to keep them from the froft in winter. 
The philofophical oeconomifts, numerous as they are in Sweden, 
have not yet, it would feem, difcovered themfelves, or at leaft not 
taught the country people, that this ufeful root may be fecured 
from the keeneft froft, by lodging it in cavities dug to a fufficient 
depth in the earth ; but the peafants, though poor, feel no pref- 
fing wants that are not gratified. Befides bread and milk, they 
have in their ftores falted or fmoked meat, as well as fifh, and oc- 
cafionally 
