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v8 A TOUR THROUGH
the fize ofa: Mufcovy duck. The egg after half an hours
boiling remains liquid. The boors take thefe birds by
lighting a fire under the rock where they build, The
fmoke and heat make them giddy, and they drop down
in numbers.
Many clufters of Swallows in their torpid flate, I was cre-
dibly informed, are frequently found by filhermen among
reeds and bufhes in the Lakesboth of Norway and Sweden.
~ Tho’ this country feems to be fituated under an inclem-
nent Sky, yet we muft not fuppofe that Nature has entire-
ly deprived it of the fruits of the Earth. -Befides others
which may be found in cold climates the following are
the: native fruits of Lapland. The A’kerbar, which grows
in flony places, and. is reckoned a rarity at the firlt Tables
in Sweden, itis preferved and ufed as a defert, from which
alfo they make a fort of wine : the Hiortron, which grows
in fwamps, of the fize of the Rafpberry, is yellow, and ve-
ry delicious to the palate; and the Lingon, a fruit’ not
unlike
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