Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations.

  • Pehr Kalm
Date:
1892
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Credit: Kalm's account of his visit to England : on his way to America in 1748 / translated by Joseph Lucas ; with two maps and several illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    rT. I. p. 438.] The 27U1 May, 1748. Ängs-bärgningen.* Carrying the meadows, or Haymaking. The meadows were now everywhere being mown and carried, which lay on the slopes just outside London. Some of them were already mown, and the hay carried, inbårgadt. The whole process was carried out almost in the same way as with us. The grass was mown with the scythe, and left to lie in the order in which the mowers, slåtter-karlen, laid it, till it had become somewhat dry on the upper side. After it was raked out, though seldom with rakes, räfsor, but with the here universally used iron-forks, järn-gafflar, with along wooden handle, et långt träskaft, it was so left to dry. After- wards it was turned once or more with the iron-forks, then raked together into rows, i sträng, with ordinary rakes. After that it was cast together with the often- mentioned pitchforks into [T. I. p. 43g] large cocks valmar, getting on for 8 feet high. Afterwards it was laid on large waggons, and carried home. It was very rare here to see any women at the work in the meadows, but the carrying of the meadows was performed mostly by men only. It is incredible what an abundance of grass was now found on those meadows, especially on those which lay on the north side of the town. It nearly * “Ångs-bargningen” and “Ängsbruket i Middlesex.” In the View of the Agriculture of Middlesex, drawn up for the Board of Agriculture: By John Middleton, 1798. London, 8vo. the distribution of “ Meadow and Pasture” in Middlesex is shown by a green colour on the valuablemapzX the beginning. It quite substantiates Åa/wbdescription, though 50 years had passed away. The subject of “ Meadows and Pastures forms 8ec. I., p. 219-225 of “ Chap. VIII., GRASS, pp. 219-253. The subject of “ Haymaking or “Ängs-bargningen ” is Sec. III., pp. 237-251 ; that of “ Sown-Grasses ” so exhaustively treated by Kalm forming Sec. II., pp. 226-236. [J. L.]
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