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

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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$which all consisted of dug-up roots of beech, oak, ash, &c., which were now mostly cut up to be used at the house for fuel instead of other wood, ved. Thus they knew in this district how to make use of every bit of a tree, and to be careful of the wood. [T. I. p. 342.] Hopgyttrade flintstenar. Conglomerated flint-pebbles. Puddingstone. For the most part, at all the farmhouses there were placed here and there against the corners tolerably large stones, such as one or two men might carry, which stones were only a conglomeration of quite small round, trinda, so-called Pebblestones, which are all a kind of small round smooth flint-stones. They had here been bound together by some fine clay, lera, which had afterwards become as hard as flint. I do not know where they had taken them from, for they did not occur on the open plain. In London I afterwards got to see small pieces of it, which were polished and made into the lids of snuff-boxes, when they looked like the most beautiful agates, and exhibited a variety of colours. Hurudant vatten Här brukas til kokning, etc. What kind of water is here used for cooking, etc. I have said before [p. 281 orig.~\ that a spiing or any running water is very seldom found on the Chalk- hills. Therefore those who live there are obliged to dig large and deep ponds, dammar, in which the ram water can collect, and clear itself, sila sig tilliopa. In colour this pond-water exactly resembled such white and thick water, as in Sweden usually stands in clay-pits, lergropar, only that this, here in England, inclincd. .1 little to yellow, which was due* to the chalk soil, knt- grundon, which it stood upon. Folk avail themselves * This yellow tint is caused by hydrated peroxide of iron. f J. L.]$