ABSTRACT
IN the regions of the North there is also a famous province called Ångermanland, whose inhabitants are very skilful hunters; in fact through that employment, by the sale, that is, of valuable skins, they attain enormous wealth. 1 Besides this they are such excellent farmers that, as well as cultivating the flat and sloping fields, they have found out how to make the high mountain-sides equal in quality to the most fertile land. They do so with the help of fire and snow, for at the autumn equinox they set fire to thick brushwood and grasses, and carefully spread the dust and ashes which this produces over the fallen snow which arrives afterwards, so that the sliminess fertilizes the fields, just as if it were cattle manure. 2 So they manage to garner a more luxuriant crop from them and gain a more copious harvest. I shall speak of this later when I come to the subject of agriculture.
Ångermanland Hunters
Farmers
Method of preparing and for sowing
