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OUTHIER’S JOURNAL OF A VOYAGE TO THE NORTH. 305
their horfes to graze this fine rye. They fow barley at the earlieft in May, but generally
in June, and it is ripe in the beginning of Augult, as well as the rye; they then reap it
with a fickle, the fame as in France. All the barley is round-eared, and makes a very
well-tafted bread. The inhabitants have near their houfes long poles, placed horizon-
tally into holes made in two or three upright beams; the whole forms a kind of ladder,
very wide, on which they expofe their barley to the rays of the fun, during the remainder
of the month of Auguit, while it yet appears for fome time above the horizon: when
the feafon is adverfe, they take them into the rooms fet apart for threfhing ; they place
them on large ladders, with the ears downwards, fo that birds, not being able to perch
on them, fhould do them no damage.
‘Lheir harrows are contrived very ingenioufly ; they are compofed of fmall pieces of
wood, which are faftened together very much in the manner of certain chains made for
watches: there are feveral ranges of thefe pieces, each range confilting of twelve; the
firft rank hung entirely upon two crols pieces, to which the harneis is iaftened, by which
the horfe draws.
In all the country through which we paffed fcarcely any other trees were feen but fir
and birch. in the iflands of the Gulph of Bothnia there grows a tree refembling the
acacia; it bears bunches of white flowers, which turn to berries of a very lively red:
there are a number of thefe trees in the church-yard of Torneo ;_ no ufe is made of their
fruit. A little to the fouth of Torneo, in Welt-bothnia, a tree is met with, of a mid-
dling fize; fome of them have leaves which refemble thofe of the pear-tree ; others
refembling cherry leaves: this tree bears bunches of white flowers ; it is called Eque.
At Torneo, and even beyond Uhma, there are no fruit trees; we did not find either
black or white thorn, nor even bramble: ftrawberries however grow even north of
Torneo, wijh fome currants, and wild rofes. North of Torneo no rafpberries are met
with ; they have yet however a good fort of fruit which they call Ocrubeus ; it is be-
tween a rafpberry and a ftrawberry, and of a fize between both; its leaf refembles that
of a rafpberry; its height is inconfiderable ; its {tem woody ; it bears a red flower,
which turns to a red fruit, pleafing to the tafte. In fome of the iflands of the Gulph
white-flowered ocrubeus are met with ; they bear five or fix white flowers on the fame
flalk, very much like the rafpberry ; while the red-flowered ocrubeus has feldom more
than one flower on each flalk.
. They have alfo fome other fruits: the hiouteron, a fort of mulberry ; its {tem refem-
bles that of the ocrubeus, five or fix inches high, and its fruit,’ on ripening, becomes
yellow: it is found in marfhes and meadows. In dry places, in the woods, lingen is
met with ; it grows ona {mall plant, whofe leaves are like box ; the {tems, after creep-
ing in nearly the fame manner as verenica, for four or five inches, lift themfelves up,
and bear at their extremities a bunch of very pretty bell-fhaped flowers, of a purple co-
lour, which-in autumn produce red berries, a little four; the flavour like that of our
_barberry : this fruit, notwith{tanding its fharpnefs, frequently inclofes a {mall worm.
The blober is another fruit of this country ; it is a {mall black berry, which is often
met with in different places of Normandy, and in the mountains of Franche Compté.
That of the north is of two kinds: one is at moft but five or fix inches high, the leaves
of a bright green, and the fruit ofa fine black ; the other is above a foot high, and has
the leaves and fruit fomewhat of an ath colour: both one and the other have leaves
fimilar to thofe of the myrtle.
Befides fir and birch, there are fome fallows, and here and there afpins, very high
and ftraight.
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