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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![manure was carried out in March on to such a ploughed plot, and spread out over the land. Afterwards the same land was dug up with a spade, when [T. I. p. 358] A the manure came to lie lowest. In this the potatoes were afterwards planted in rows. To do this still more quickly they had a stick, käpp, of the accompanying figure, with which they made a little hole for the potato, to lay it in. D B is the part of the stick that made the hole in the earth when they trod on the j pin C D. No ditches diken, are seen here on the ploughed fields, although the land in B some places might not require them, but the furrows between the stitches would fulfil all requirements. The arable fields were all surrounded with hedges of hawthorn, which were set up and managed nearly in the same way as has been before described in Hertfordshire. All the land about here was divided into small inclosures, täppor, which were either arable fields, meadows, or pastures, all of which were surrounded with hawthorn hedges. Beskrivning på Woodford. Description of Woodford. Woodford is a parish or large village with a church in it, which lies in Essex, eight miles N.E.of London. The houses in this place are not built so close together as in several other parishes, but more scattered about. They are all of brick, several stories high, well built, and some of them handsome. The inhabitants are partly Farmers, but still more Gentlemen. The means of livelihood are various. The gentlemen, Gentlemennerne, live mostly on their money, which they get from their property. Bakers, innkeepers, butchers, have an abundant market for their wares, and thus practise a good trade, föd- krok. Farmers or others who are owners of some](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b24857026_0190.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
