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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    was wet. At the ends there were water-furrows to lead off the water. For this summer this was left to lie fallow, and would be sown with wheat in the following autumn. Farther up in the same field where the soil was drier, the field was laid out in Ten-bouts-land, or so that each ridge, ryggning, consisted of 20 furrows. The breadth of such a land was 11 feet (5^ aln.). They were highest in the middle and sloped on both sides. Svalor. Swallows appeared to-day for the first time this year. Kaniner deras hemvist &c. Rabbits, their dwellings, &c. We came before dinner, middagen, to a plain, slätt, which was very mucli overgrown with brackens Ormbunkar. It was nearly surrounded by ploughed fields. On this warren, fält, which was fenced round with planks, plankor, we saw a great many rabbits, of a grey colour, which had their residence here. The ground was quite full of the holes which they had dug, and into which they ran down, as soon as one came somewhat near them. They were said all to belong to a gentleman, who lived not far from thence. In one place and another there were traps, fällor, set to catch them. These traps exactly resemble a kind of traps which are set for large rats. [T. I. p. 351.] They are knocked together of four boards, like a long box, låda. At each end hangs a perpendicular board, like a door, which by a specially contrived arrangement above the trap, resembled a brunns hink, or hatch of a stream, and can be hoisted up so that the entrance to the trap stands open. In the middle of the trap, an iron pin or a little wooden rod goes cross-wise, and as soon as the rabbit climbs on to this and presses it down, a pin on the
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