The people of Scania having mowed their grass, let it lie till dry, when they rake it together.
The Smolanders dry it in a kind of shed.
The East Gothlanders range it in heaps, two and two together, in a long row.
In Upland the new-mown grass is tied up in bundles, and collected into cocks.
In Angermannia the whole year's crop is laid by upon a kind of raised floor.
In Westbothland, after being dried in the shed, the hay is kept there for use, being laid crosswise, and cut when wanted[4].
July 23.
This evening I took leave of the alpine
part of Lapland, and returned by water from Hyttan towards Lulea.
The White, or Mountain, Fox (Canis lagopus) lives among the alps, feeding on the Lemming Rat or Red Mouse, (Mus Lemmus,) as well as on the Ptarmigan (Tetrao Lagopus). This White Fox is smaller than the common kind. The Ptarmigan, which the Laplanders call Cheruna, feeds on the Dwarf Birch (Betula nana), which for that reason is called Ryprys, or Ptarmigan-bush. At night this bird lies squat upon the snow, in the same posture as the Wood Grous (Tetrao Urogallus, see vol. 1. 179): hence a great deal of its dung is seen in the prints it makes in the snow. This mode of roosting renders the Ptarmigan an easy prey to the Fox.