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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    *59 outside slips loose and the boards at both ends fall dcnvn, and the rabbits are thus shut in. Branches, Armar, made of small sprays, språtar, go out from these traps on four sides, as in a Ryssja, Kipe, or fish-trap ”* to lead the rabbits in. In the fence itself which separates the fields from this mclosure, there were also such traps, but only open at the end which turned towards the arable fields and nailed up at the other end towards1 the plain, slätten, where the rabbits were. It thus seemed that the owner of the arable field was at liberty to catch all rabbits which were in his field and wished to go out of it, but had not leave to take any if one should go from the warren into the fields. We saw afterwards the same day at two other places, the one between Bell Bar and Cheshunt, the other between Waltham Abbey and Woodford, such places, on the open ground, where rabbits were kept, and where there were similar traps to catch them with. At the former place they had their dwelling in the side of a bank, where the owner had had several longitudinal and transverse ditches dug, of 3 feet deep, to lead off the water which came running down from the bank above, and prevented it from thus trickling to the place where the rabbits had their holes, but that the ground might be dry for them. We saw them 1 un there by thousands. They had dragged brackens down into their holes. No [T. I. p. 352] other food was given them, than whac they themselves could find on the ground. The owner seemed in consequence to have a considerable profit from the ground he let out as a rabbit warren. * A long round tapering wicker-basket, called “ fish-coop ” on the llutnber, “kipe” in Oxfordshire, “put,” “putch,” or “cype,” on the Severn, formerly “ cyt,” “ kydel.” fj. L.]
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