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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    Flinta til murar, vägars lagning, etc. Flints for walls, road-niaking, &c. In one place and another we saw walls of arable fields built of flints only, af bara flinta. In some places a great part of the church walls were built of them. Out- side St. Albans some earls were engaged in digging deep ditches by the road side. Their depth was 3'feet 6 inches. 'W here these ditches were on the hills, there were a great many large flints among the earth cast up from them, some of them so large that one earl was scarcely able to lift more than one of them. They were afterwards carried out on to the roads to fili up the [T. I. p. 348] deep holes made by their large and heavy cart and wagon-wheels. In other places where the ground was more even and not in hills, small Pebblestones were dug up, which were små rundaktiga kiselstenar af bara flinta, small round pebbles of flint, which also were carried out on to the roads. Together with these Pebblestones there was also dug up here a quantity of brick-colored grus or gravel, which was afterwards sereened, sållades, from the pebbles, to be used on paths in pleasure gardens and kitchen gardens. In some of these places where the ground was even, and not in hills, the soil, right down to the bottom of the ditch, consisted of the aforenamed brick-colored gravel, with clay amongst it, med lera deribland, and an abundance of Pebblestones. In other places also, on the hills, there was on the top the brick- colored earth, 3 or 4 feet, and chalk under it, in which was found abundance of flint. Kyrko-torns skapnad, m. m. Church-towers'shapes, etc. The church-towers here in England, especially in the country, were commonly such, that they did not taper off at the top in a spire, spira eller spits, but resembled
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