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30 TRAVELS
tridts do not now preduce the fame grain, or quantity of grain, as
formerly. Traces of furrows, now overgrown with heath or mofs,
are every where found on maa 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
wildeft {pots through which we paffed 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 fhocks of corn and what hay there is in
Sweden are all placed on wooden frames, raifed feveral 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 well 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 fhrill and woodland, but not unpleafant.
The ftheep and cattle will come together at certain places and
times, obedient to this call. It isin the fame manner that the
cattle are colleed by the herdfmen of the Alps. What I faw
of the fouth of Sweden affords certainly nothing very ftriking to
the eye, yet as the country is altogether agreeably varied, and in
other refpects offers much novelty of obfervation, it makes an in-
terefting
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