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3 SWEDENBORG’S TRAVELS AND DIARIES. [Doc. 205.
May 17. After bidding adieu to my relations and sister,
I went straightway to Schonen and Ystad, passing through
two towns only, Grenna and Jönköping.
May 19. Having passed through Småland, * I reached
Schonen. This province, from its climate and more southern
latitude, has a different air and also a different soil from
Småland. It is not so mountainous and hilly, and hence not
so uneven, but more level ; it seemed also to have a more
sandy soil. The forest lands are poor, and the trees low, ex
cept where they produce beech-trees and hazel-trees (corylus).
In some places the pines, fir-trees, and birches were gradually
lost to the sight, and their places supplied by the trees peculiar
to the land and soil. This alone seems to me worthy of be
ing noticed, that their very necessities and the want of proper
kinds of wood seem to have compelled this people to surround
and protect their farms with a different kind of hedge or fence
from that which is used in Sweden. Their fences are partly
made of stones, partly of branches and twigs of trees inter
woven, partly of roots, and partly of all together ; they serve
the purpose of fences admirably, and mark the boundary-line
of the estates or farms better than is done in Sweden. Those
that are made of stones are built in a very rude manner.
In those cases in which they are constructed of branches,
sticks or stakes are driven into the ground two feet apart,
and between them boughs are woven and twisted in a serpen
tine manner, and are closely wound round each of the stakes
which are fixed in the ground. At a distance of from four
to six yards wooden props, which are put into the ground ob
liquely, support the fences, and prevent them from being blown
down by the wind. Those that are made of roots consist for
the most part of the roots of the beech, dug out of the ground,
and not unskilfully fastened between sticks, and stakes, and
pine-stems ; partly also they are thrown without order on the
top of each other, and partly they are placed on a foundation
of rocks, in such a manner as to prevent any one from pass
ing through.
* One of the old Swedish provinces, the capital of which is Wexiö,
where at a later period the Swedish poet Tegnér was bishop.
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