The men, and frequently also the boys, wear long dark-blue cloth surtouts, and cloth caps on their heads; so that, at a distance, they look like gentlemen in travelling dress.

It seems curious to a foreigner to see these apparent gentlemen following the plough or cutting grass.

At a nearer view, of course the aspect changes, and the rents and dirt appear, or the leathern apron worn beneath the coat, like carpenters in Austria, becomes visible.
The female costume was peculiar only in so far that it was poor and ragged.

In dress and shoes the Norwegian and Swedes are behind the Icelanders, but they surpass them in the comfort of their dwellings.
September 14th.
To-day I returned to Stockholm on the Malarsee, and the weather being more favourable than on my former passage, I could remain on deck the whole time.

I saw now that we sailed for several miles on the river Fyris, which flows through woods and fields into the lake.
The large plain on which old and new Upsala lie was soon out of sight, and after passing two bridges, we turned into the Malar.