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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    Byar, magnificent mansions, fruitful fields, meadows, orchards, plantations, skogs-lundar, &c., which here delight the eye. This is also the reason why some of the inhabitants of London partly have [T. I. p. 360] their ovvn houses here, and partly hire houses here, especially in the summer time. For this reason also, rooms here in the summer are often dearer than in London itself. Grindar. Description of various G ates. The gates here were of several kinds. I will first describe those which they used very much at the entrances, gång-vägar, in front of, utan för, gentle- men’s houses. These were so made that they could be opened, tagas up, both ways, inwards as well as out- wards. They are mostly small, made like other gates, but instead of hanging like other gates, on two gång-järn, “ ride-hinges ” or ring-hinges, and hackar, “ driving- hooks,” “ gate-hooks,” or pivot-hooks of similar shape, the shapes of the lower hinge and “gate-hook,” haken, are here quite different from the upper. The upper “ driving-hook,” hake, is like our common door and gate-hooks, and is constructed as in the accompanying plate, Fig. 1. It is driven into the side of the gate-post, grind-stålpen, which tums towards the gate. The gate, grinden, liangs by a “ ride-hinge ” on to this hake, or “driving-hook,” which “ride-hinge,” gång- järn, is fastened on to the middle of the side of the gate which turns towards the gate-post. For the lower hinge, instead of a “ride-hinge,” there is driven into the bottom of the gate, 6 inches above the ground, or a little more, a double socket-iron, et järn, of the shape represented in Fig. 2, in which F E is the part which is driven into the side of the gate-frame,
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