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THROUGH SWEDEN. 199
cloth. The young peafants commonly wear cotton ftockings, and
many of them have even watches. The women, when full
dreffed, 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, with a camlet petticoat. For the moft
part they wear caps, and feveral filk handkerchiefs over their
necks. In their houfes they are chiefly dreffed in clothing of their
own manufacture, of which they have a variety. The married
women often appear with a number of gold rings upon their
fingers, and they feem particularly fond of wearing fuch orna-
ments; yet filver fpoons and goblets are lefs often feen in Aland
than amongtt the fubftantial 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 moftly thatched. As they
have no running ftreams 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. Asa proof of the regularity of their lives, it is
only neceffary to obferve, that from the year 1749 to 1793, no
more than feven criminals were capitally convicted, and within
that fpace of time only feven 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
1791,
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