I observed how they manage their corn at this season. They have no barns to lay it into, but it is placed between poles, all the ears directed to one side, in stacks two or three ells long, and very high. If the corn be not quite dry, it is first spread abroad. Afterwards it is dried in a kiln, and thrashed on a floor. How liable must it be to take fire, and how much must unavoidably be spilt in consequence of such management! I received 100 dollars, of copper-money, from the chief clergyman. I learned here that Tansy (_Tanacetum vulgare_) and Mugwort (_Artemisia vulgaris_) are used to make a fomentation or bath, wonderfully useful for women in labour, who are accustomed to sit over the steam of these herbs. I had observed the people at every house drying Tansy, but could meet with nobody who would inform me to what use it was destined. _September 16._ This day I again left Tornea for Kimi. There are six ferries between these two places, over the river Kokama, which passes near Kimi. Two miles from hence are the boundaries of East and West Bothnia. Lime-stone attracted my notice all the way along the road to Norbotn; it was yellow on the outside, whitish within. _September 17._ I departed from the posthouse of Kimi. The weather was unfavourable, for it rained all day long. I took up my lodging in the evening at the posthouse of Jö. This part of the country lies very low, abounding with marshes and numerous small rivulets, but few hills. There is plenty of grass. The buildings are bad. The forests consist chiefly of Birch, intermixed with the _acifoliæ_ (slender-leaved evergreens). Of these last the Juniper was remarkable for its abundance and large size, so as to be almost arborescent. The Birch and the dwarf Willows had now become pale, but the _Sorbus_ (Mountain ash, _Pyrus aucuparia_, _Fl. Brit._) had assumed a red hue, as well as all the mosses. (_Pedicularis_) _Sceptrum Carolinum_ appeared every where by the roadside. _Thalictrum_ (_flavum_) and _Scutellaria_ (_galericulata_) were less frequent, but Golden-rod (_Solidago Virga aurea_), _Trollius_ (_europæus_), (_Spiræa_) _Ulmaria_, and _Epilobium_ (_palustre_?) were plentiful, as was the sweet _Milium_ (_effusum_), with the _Gramen ramosum_ (probably _Aira cæspitosa_.) The inhabitants were in their smoky huts, with their eyes full of smoke, and the tears running from them. Nevertheless they seemed more studious of warmth than careful of their eyesight. The same sort of plough is used here as at Kimi. I had frequent views of the sea through the woods on the right hand. Wherever the waves had thrown up sand-hills grew a pea with a triangular stem, a white creeping perennial root, and thick leaves alternately pinnate, (_Pisum maritimum_).