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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    collected in the houses, are cast out into the Street by the servants, where they are afterwards shovelled to- gether in heaps, and laid in the dung-wagons to be carried out of the town to some particular place where they are shot. Such a wagon or cart as is used for cleaning the town has the advantage, that it does not drive out of the way of anyone it may happen to meet in the Street. When farmers and others convey anything into the town to be sold, they seldom drive with an empty load home, but they mostly take a wagon full of this manure out with them from the places where it is collected together. Some of these places are such, that the ground on whicli the dirt is laid belongs to one person who lets it out to another, who does not allow anyone to take a load from it, who does not pay a certain price for it. [T. I. p. 177.] Other places again are of this descrip- tion, that anyone has freedom to take the dirt from them without pay ing anything for it. For this reason farmers who live not far from London, do not take the tiouble to seekafter Marie and other manures 011 their own properties because they have such a good opportunity for providing themselves with excellent manure from London. Those who sell this dirt are said to derive large incomes from it in the course of a year, and a farmer does not think much of paying a few pence for every load he takes on the return journey home in an otherwise empty wagon. The 24th March, 1748* Genista Spinosa vulg. Raj. Syn. 475, is called by the Englishmen Furze. It is used in some places here in the country for hedges round the aiable fields, meadows, &c., but this is not so very common. The reason why it is so little used for this purpose is said to be principally that when it has stood three or four years the lowest
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