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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    pä fälten, round about London. Besides that, donkeys are used hereabouts to carry burdens. In particular, bakers, vvho send round their men to sell bread, use donkeys to carry the bread-baskets, when a large basket commonly hangs, sitter, on each side of the saddle. The gypsies, Tattare, who roam about this country, use only donkeys instead of horses to carry their children and baggage. [See also p. 347, orig.] The 1 gth April, 1748. In the morning I went with Mr. Warner and some English gentlemen to the places which lay immediately to the east of Woodford. The hedges, inclosures, houses, ncks, and hay-stacks, all kinds of straw for manure in the farm-yards, in a word, all their rural economy was such as that we liave described at Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire; but the soil was a brick-coloured clay mixed very much with Gravel and Pebblestones. Chalk does not appear here. Also the land here in Essex is much more affected by wet than in Hertfordshire, where the ground was much drier. En stor Ek. A large Oak. Mi. Warner went out with us to-day, especially to show us an oak tree, which he said was one of the thickest oaks he had seen in England. We measured the penphery of the trunk, stammen, four feet above the ground, when we found that this oak was 30 feet round. At 15 feet above the roots it divided itself into twelve large branches, and each of these twelve divided itself after- wards into several smaller branches. We measured its width from the outermost twigs on the west [T. I. p. 354] to the outermost twigs on the east, in this way, that we erected at each side a perpendicular line from the ground to the outermost twigs on the W. and E. sides, when we found that there were just 116 feet between the two M
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