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46 A TOUR THROUGH
they are a large, bony, athletic people, capable of
bearing much fatigue. —
The Woods here are remarkably extenfive and thick,
and. are Jupppléd to herbourmorzauild peafls than any
other part of Sweden. We were informed of a melan-
choly inflance of the ferocity of thefe wild animals near
a neighbouring Village while we were there. Two un-.
fortunate Girls, attending their herds in the wood, were
both devoured by a ravenous fhe-bear and her young,
which the day before had been feen prowling for prey,
~The fame night we reached Sunval a Sea-port town
upon the fame Gulf,” The* trade of this place chiefly
confifts in the building of Ships, which is* very conveni-
ent on account of its near fituation to fuch extenfive and
fine forefts, It neither imports nor exports any thing,
except tar, which they extraét from their firs,
On the morning of the 17th. we crofled two ferries
and pafled a moft mountainous country, The hills on
every
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