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TRAVELS OF EHRENMALM. 343
ears, very fhort neck, full cheft, ftrait ham, the body of little length but large, fhort
loins between the tail and the belly, the upper part of the leg long, the lower fhort, the
bottom of the leg without hair, the hoof {mall and hard, the tail large, the hair thick,
fmall feet, fure and never fhoed: they are good horfes, feldom reftive or obftinate,
climbing up all the mountains. They owe their ftrength to the excellent grafs on
which they feed. The odour of clover announces fine meadows from afar. When
thefe horfes are moved to the pafture lands at Stockholm, they feldom pafsa year there
without growing lean and lofing their vigour. On the contrary the horfes. which come
from more northern countries into Nordland, thongh fick the firft year, recover their
ftrength. But on the other hand, ftallions brought from a more fouthern climate,
would here degenerate, perhaps at leaft in fize.
From Ghefle to Hernofand, we never lofe fight of the gulf of Bothnia, which by its
fifhery might fupport the inhabitants of its fhores ; but there are alfo found in the midft
of the woods, Jakes, fome of them extenfive, others fmaller, which abound in large fifth,
and of good flavour, fuchas pike, bream, and perch. ‘Thefe lakes are bordered with
verdant fhrubs ; they flow in {mall vallies which they clothe with grafs, and often form
by their union rivers in which falmon is found. Mott of thefe lakes are in elevated
fituations, and their waters turn many mills. ‘The trees of this diftri&t are tolerably
good in fome places, and fit for timber-work ; but, in general, fmall, weak, old, and
overgrown with mofs.
There is but a fingle peafant’s houfe between the inns of Hammarangria and Skog,
which are at the diflance of three miles from each other. It is fituated by a lake
abounding in fifh, near the bridge thrown over the little rivulet feparating Gheftri-
keland from Helfingeland. The peafant who dwells there poffeffes lands which, bor-
dering the highway, for the fpace oi a mile, extend half a mile into the country. A wood
to the fouth, ferves in common for the parifh of Hammarangria; a wood to the north,
fervesin common for the parifh of Skog. Each of thefe woods is amile and three
quarters in length, and one in breadth. ‘This country only wants men. Although
the whole extent of this road is covered with fand and aged firs, at intervals there are
feen lakes and vallies clothed with herbage and wood. Nature is ready to affift culti-
vation.
From Skog we proceed to the river of Saderahl, where is found a ferry-boat. This
river merits.attention. It yields a very confiderable falmon fifhery. It ferves to tran-
fport to Soderhama, the iron which is worked in the mills it turns. Every thing which
contributes to the fubfiftence of man, to the relief of his real wants ought to intereft
him. ‘The iron mines of Nordland do not prefent to the imagiuation of the reader thofe
torrents of blood and carnage, with which we fee the mines of gold overflowing, in the
deplorable hiftory of the New World. Man born good and virtuous, delights to travel,
at leat in imagination into thefe barren countries of the North, which exifting under a
free and patriotic government, do not repel the heart, by fcenes of crime and vexa-
tion, engendered by one another. Nature there is fad and even harfh: but there man
: not malevolent; man, who nearly over the whole earth occafions the woes of his
ind.
The foil of Helfingheland, is fimilar enough to that of Gheftrikeland ; equally ftony,
more barren, overfpread with fteeper mountains. Helfingheland has befides a mixture
of every kind of foil; gravel and fand which produce firs, rich and firm argil, marthes,
miry plains, black earth; in fine it is interfected with lakes, of which the bottoms are
fometimes fand, and fometimes mud. In the diftric&t where the road borders the fea,
there appear to have been woods fit for timber work ; but they have all ,been cut, and
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