This location is mentioned in the following paragraphs:
(§70) There was also a frame, 16 feet in height, for drying corn and peas. All the corn is dried on these up-country, throughout the whole of Hälsingland, Medelpad, Ångermanland and Västerbotten.
(§91) After travelling about 10 miles from Hamrånge I arrived at a river that separates Gästrikland from Hälsingland. It is called the Tonnaå and it flows into the Tonna Lake not very far away.
(§93) Hälsingland
(§113) Blue stone, of which I saw plenty both before and after this in Hälsingland, is used here to line chimneys because they say that it lasts better than millstone.
(§133) The boundary between Hälsingland and Medelpad lies between RÖDE in Gnarp and the DINGERSJÖ inn. It is marked by 2 posts, one standing on each side of the road. I noticed immediately that 'Erica' [Heather] became rather less common and was supplemented by 'Myrtillus baccis nigris' [Blaeberry]. Birch trees also became more abundant, and to my left there lay big grey hills. Throughout the whole district, stones the size of 2 fists lay in a jumble below the cliffs along the road. Not having been disturbed, they were all greyish-green from a thin covering of moss.
(§151) The country here looks like Hälsingland but is somewhat more agreeable to inhabit.
(§159) We now left Medelpad with its 'Napellus' [Northern Wolfsbane] and its sand-covered roads, so similar to those in Hälsingland.
(§166) The wooded slopes here were more suitable for clear-burning than they had been earlier since, once the fire had passed, a covering of soil was left behind rather than the heaps of stones that get left in Hälsingland and Medelpad.
(§178) On travelling 1 3/4 miles into the forest in this neighbourhood, I saw that the ground was half-covered in snow to the depth of 6 inches. I missed all the pleasing spring flowers, for they had gradually become fewer during the course of the day, and the birches here - unlike those yesterday - had not yet opened their leaves to adorn the forest. Only the evergreen plants such as 'Erica' [Heather] and 'Vaccinium' [cowberry and cranberry] were visible through the snow. The reason why the snow was still lying here was that terribly high hills lay all around and the forest cloaked everything. The hills prevented the pleasant west wind from playing here and the trees excluded the south wind. And all the warm rain was captured by the trees of the vast forest. Almost the whole province consists of hills, hence the numerous channels that run down to the valleys between each and every hill. Since rainwater cannot remain on a steep slope, it runs off the side and finds its escape via these channels. The same is true in Hälsingland and Medelpad.
(§376) There is some good grazing here and there in the forests but there is little arable or pasture land, particularly arable. After the grass has been cut on the boggy ground for one or at most two years, there is no further growth and bogmoss grows over it and the hog thus becomes barren. I think that this very extensive province could be cultivated just as much as Hälsingland which, after all, is extremely hilly and less tractable than it is here. I have seen great mosses of flow-meadow or utter bog that I am sure could become good meadowland if the water were provided with some small channel to allow it to drain away. They have experimented with this and say that no grass at all will grow afterwards since, because of the tussocks and 'Juncus radice implicat' [Deergrass], everything dries up. All that should be grubbed up and removed, then the land should be ditched and the peat turned over.
Practical data about this location:
- Written: Hälsingland
- GPS (lat,lon): [61.5, 17]
- Geoname: 2708325