THROUGH SWEDEN. 
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cloth. The young peafants commonly wear cotton (lockings, and 
many of them have even watches. The women, when full 
drefled, wear a petticoat and apron of camlet, cotton, or printed 
linen, and fometimes of filk. Their drefs in mourning is ge¬ 
nerally of black filk, wdth a camlet petticoat. For the mod 
part they w r ear caps, and feveral filk handkerchiefs over their 
necks. In their houfes they are chiefly drefled in clothing of theif 
own manufacture, of which they have a variety. The married 
women often appear with a number of gold rings upon their 
Angers, and they feem particularly fond of wearing fuch orna¬ 
ments ; yet diver fpoons and goblets are lefs often feen in Aland 
than amongd the fubflantial farmers in Sweden. 
The dwellings of the peafants are very neat and convenient, 
kept in good repair, and well lighted. They are ufually built of 
wood, fir, or deal, and covered with the bark of the birch tree, 
or fhingles. Their out-houfes are moflly thatched. As they 
have no running dreams and water-mills, fcarcely any peafant is 
without a windmill. 
The Alanders are upon the whole an ingenious, lively, and 
courteous people; and on the fea difplay a great degree of (kill 
and refolution. As a proof of the regularity of their lives, it is 
only neceflary to obferve, that from the year 1749-to 1793, no 
more than feven criminals were capitally convided, and within 
that fpace of time only (even murders committed ; which is in 
the proportion of one execution and one murder to one thoufand 
eight hundred natural deaths : whereas in London, during the year 
1701 , 
