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198 _ TRAVELS |
The fea which furrounds the ifle of Aland is very feldom frozen,
and was lefs fo formerly than at the prefent time. In 1546 it
was remarked as an extraordinary event, that in that year the fea
was fo frozen as to be croffed on the ice. It feems latterly that
thefe fcvere frofts happened once in ten years. The winter of
the year 1702 was remarkably mild, fo that barley was fown on
the twenty-fifth of March, at which time there was plenty of
pafture for cattle: confidering its high latitude, Aland enjoys a
very favourable climate. :
In their manners and cuftoms the inhabitants of Aland do not
differ greatly from the peafants of Upland. Their marriages and
- funerals are celebrated much in the fame manner. In Aland they
ufually marry about the middle of fummer, and appear thereby
to fhew that they have no need to wait for the time of harveft
to enable them to fupport a family.
The Alanders commonly ufe nourifhing food; their bread is
generally made of rye, even when the crops of that kind of corn
have proved unfavourable. Frefh fifth, and fifth dried or falted,
together with milk, butter, cheefe, and flefh-meat, are their ufual
fare. They make ufe of the flefh of feals, and prepare a dith
called /kalkroppe, compofed of collops of the flefh mixed up with
flour and lard, and this they reckon excellent. In their voyages
by fea they lay in a good ftock of provifions, and at thofe times
are not {paring of meat and butter.
The drefs of the Alanders is becoming. The men wear, in
general, fhort jackets, which on holidays are commonly of blue
cloth.
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