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124 fully in their Swedish origin, and the more educated of them are interested in Sweden, and are glad to hear any news from that country.”

So far Pastor Immer. In the songs of East Friesland, which are especially current in Ober-Hasli, “Schweden and Oestfriedland,” are represented as a neighboring country, and it is an “Obrist Schwitzerns” who conducts the emigrants from Sweden, each one with his cattle passing over the Rhine, and coming to the good country, “Brockenburg,” where they established themselves. During a visit which I paid the preceding summer to Gothland, I heard speak of a