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"86 - TRAVELS
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 browz legs, and the
wolves grey Jegs, in the fame manner as the people of Sumatra
| give good names to the tyger.
During the whole of this route from Stockholm to Grifle-
hamn, the traveller muft not think of {topping 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 muft carry his proyifions along with
him, for the poor peafants have feldom any thing befides bread
and milk, or fometimes falted provifions, not always agreeable to
travellers. Their bread is flat round cakes, made for the moft
part of barley or rye, with holes in the middle, through which a
{tring paffes 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 ‘1s owing, I imagine,
to the difficulty they find to keep them from the froft in winter.
The philofophical ceconomifts, 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
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