I now came in sight of the extensive meadows of Limingo, more spacious than all the meadow-ground of Tornea and Rödbeck together. (Tuneld says in his Geography, that the meadows of Limingo, and cornfields of the neighbouring parish of Storkyrro, are famous to a proverb for their great extent.) At first the land seemed a perfect marsh, filled with Horsetail (_Equisetum fluviatile_), and especially with Reed, _Arundo_ (_Phragmites_), which last grew in such abundance as to resemble a forest. The Water Hemlock, _Cicutaria aquatica_, _Cicuta virosa_; (see p. 136), was very plentiful by the road-side. This led me to inquire whether the cattle ever fed there? I was answered by the peasants in the affirmative, with a question in my turn, whether I could give them any advice on the subject, for they had lost a great many; adding similar particulars to what I had heard at Tornea. Red Currants (_Ribes rubrum_) grew all the way by the road, as well as _Lenticula_ (_Lemna_ or Duck-weed), and the _Lichenoides_ of which powder is made was observable on the trees. (_Lichen prunastri_, said to have been used for hair-powder.) The meadow of Limingo is two miles in length. The best part of the land, near the village of that name, was now occupied by the horned cattle. The land here is more elevated and less marshy, though somewhat impaired by tumps (of _Carex cæspitosa_). If but a third part of it were cultivated, according to the Scanian mode of husbandry, it would be of more value than the whole is at present. I was told that the whole marsh might be laid dry, by cutting a channel down to the seashore; but it was feared that the land might in consequence become covered with White Moss (_Sphagnum palustre_), which would render it altogether unprofitable. About a thousand hay-cocks were now before me on the meadow, but none of them consisting of more than a horse could draw. They never here use more than a single horse or ox at a time for draught. Each of these cocks was raised from the ground on a kind of scaffold, supported by several cross poles. Some of the Water Iris (_Iris Pseud'acorus_) was mixed with the hay. The milk-strainers are made of straw, and not very clean. _September 20._ Brabestad, not far distant, is a small town, though twice the size of Tornea, standing on a peninsula by the sea. In the hospital of Cronby are many maniacs, whose insanity is said to have arisen from jealousy of the conduct of their wives. One of them, whose wife was a very old woman, took this fancy, supposing her to intrigue with several other men. Possibly in these cases impotence, or perhaps some fantastic concupiscence, may have been a cause of the derangement.