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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    them I found in them some of the yellow ants, de gula etter-myror [Formica rubra]. I asked some English- men what they thought was the origin of these hillocks, tufvor. They answered that the first cause is the mole, mullvaden, which casts up the heaps; hut afteiwards the ants, myrorna, take up their quarters in them and increase them. Åkrarnas läge och häfd här vid Woodford. The position and cultivation of the ploughed fields near Woodford. The country here round Woodford does not lie level like a planum, but all slopes towards the east side so that it has full advantage of the morning sun. All the other arable and grass fields situated in this part of Essex, slope in the same way either to the one side or the other. The subsoil here consists of a brick-colored clay dividing into cubical masses, Jordmon härstädes består af en tegel-färgad i tärningar fallande lera, mingled with coarse sand and small Pebblestones, which Pebblestones are small round stones which there consist of ordinary flint, but other fragments of flint than these, such as there were on the fields in Hert- fordshire do not occur here, for those which were found there were mostly broken pieces of flint, SÖnder- remnade flint-stycken, with a chalk crust round them, and with very sharp edges ; but these Pebblestones are mostly small, quite round, and very smooth on the surface, overdrawn with a petrified white calcareous surface, krit-skårpa.* Those who lived here, demed altogether that any chalk, krit-bärg, occurs m this district round Woodford, but they mamtamed that all * These bleadied llint pebbles will mostly efTervcsce with mtric acid, [J- L J
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