Note 327 — Chapter IV
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"The simplest backwoodsman knows by experience that all cultivation is impossible in the neighborhood of bogs and marshes. Why is a crop near the borders of a marsh cut off by frost, while a field upon a hillock, a few stone's throws from it, is spared?"—Lars Levi Læstadius, Om Uppodlingar i Lappmarken, pp. 69, 74.