Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa . Pyrola has been found (1) The specimens which we brought from Halleberg and Hunneberg are now in theWooiwardlan Collection at Cambridge; and there is little perceptible differencebetween them. (2) See the Vxgnelte to the next Chapter. TO HALBY, ON THE WENER LAKE. 121 found in the South of France, and in the North of Italy, chap. is so truly an inhabitant of Alpine regions, that it wasnever seen in Britain until the year 1/83; when it wasobserved for the first time in Moray, and in the remotestwestern isles of the Hebrides. Before
Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa . Pyrola has been found (1) The specimens which we brought from Halleberg and Hunneberg are now in theWooiwardlan Collection at Cambridge; and there is little perceptible differencebetween them. (2) See the Vxgnelte to the next Chapter. TO HALBY, ON THE WENER LAKE. 121 found in the South of France, and in the North of Italy, chap. is so truly an inhabitant of Alpine regions, that it wasnever seen in Britain until the year 1/83; when it wasobserved for the first time in Moray, and in the remotestwestern isles of the Hebrides. Before it expands its cups,the blossoms are of a globular form, and it always hangs itshead like a snow-drop The antiquities of Flalleberg next claimed our attention: Celtic Anti-it was once the Holy Mountain of JVestro-Gothland; itsremarkable features having given rise to many superstitiousnotions concerning it; and a Celtic ccemetery, close to itsbase, within the defile between the two mountains, beingstill considered as the burial-place of giants. A fearful. precipice rises perpendicularly behind a thick grove of trees,which appear to have been self-planted among the brokenrocks at its base. There is also a circular range of large upright stones, |22 FROM GOTHENBURG, chap. iv. stones, near to this grove ; like what we should call, in Eng-land, a Druidical Circle ; and upon the left hand, facing theprecipice, a small circular pool of water. The tradition of theinhabitants concerning this place maintains, that the giants ofold, who inhabited this country, when they wished to hastentheir departure for Valhall, (that future state of happinesswhere all theNorthern nations expected to carouse full gobletsof ale with the Gods1,) or, when any of them were seized witha tcedium vitce, used to repair, in complete armour, to thebrink of the precipice, whence, leaping down, they weredashed to pieces, and immediately made partakers of Elysium*.The same tradition also adds, that the bodies of the
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