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Two tailors, one of them hump-backed, on their way to Wermeland, came in, with a tall, strong woman as postillion. The fire was rekindled, and every thing which the landlord had extracted from us was repeated to the new comers, together with a very genial criticism upon our personal appearance and character.
Still, I missed the noble simplicity which I had admired so much in the natives of Westerdal, and on the frontier of Wermeland, the unaffected kindness of heart, which made me look upon every man as a friend. The large town of Sala, where we spent a night, was filled with fugitives from Upsala, where the cholera was making great ravages.
The daughter and the two magisters sang for us all the characteristic songs of Wermeland and Dalecarlia which they could remember, and I was more than ever charmed with the wild, simple, original character of the native melodies of Sweden.
He states that ice is found in the mines of Nordmarck, three leagues from Philipstadt in Wermeland, a province of Sweden: these mines are merely numerous shafts sunk in the earth, reaching to the bottom of the vein of ore, so that they are fully exposed to the light, and yet the walls of the shafts become covered with ice at the end of winter, which remains there till the middle of September.
On leaving Carlstad our route lay northward up the valley of the Klar Elv, in the province of Wermeland, and thence over the hills, by way of Westerdal, in Dalecarlia, to the head of the Siljan Lake. The greater part of this region is almost unknown to travellers, and belongs to the poorest and wildest parts of Sweden.
Towards evening we reached a post-station, and were tired enough to take horses again. It was after dark before we drew up at Ohlsäter, in the heart of Wermeland. Here we found a neat, comfortable room, with clean beds, and procured a supper of superb potatoes.
BISHOP OF WERMELAND. The documents on which he rests have been Examined, and are found authentic. We May give him audience. SEVERAL DEPUTIES. Nay! We must, we must! LEO SAPIEHA. To hear is to admit his right. ODOWALSKY. And not To hear is to reject his claims unheard. ARCHBISHOP OF GNESEN. Is it your will that he have audience? I ask it for the second time and third.
The night was so dark that we had great difficulty in keeping the road, but towards eleven o'clock we emerged from the woods, and found, by shaking the boy, that we were approaching the station at last. This was a little place called Laggasen, on the northern frontier of Wermeland. Everybody had gone to bed in the hut at which we stopped.
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