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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    the iron-spike E F was being driven in to the gate, by striking it with a mallet at E. In other places all this was of wood, and instead of the hapse, klinkan, in this case being below E F, Fig. 5, it lies above it, so that when the gate closes, B C which is not then curved but straight, bends in towards the gate, and A then goes out from it, and also from its weight at A it shuts by itself, when the fixed hapse comes opposite the latch-post of the gate * Sädes-lador; Sädens-tröskning, etc. Barns, thrashing corn, etc. The barns in this district were sometimes built of brick with cross beams of wood between ; sometimes the walls were of oak boards, Ek-bräder, nailed fast horizontally. On the top they were mostly covered with tiles. A few were thatched with straw. Logen, the “lodge” where the corn was thrashed was in the middle, and a “ bay ” or “ lathe,” lada, on either side. Golfvet, the floor of the lodge was not higher above the ground than in the bays on each side of it nor was there any wall between them. They [T. I. p. 364] continued the thrashing far into the summer. Slagorne, the flails, were the same kind as ours. Some people used to clear the corn of chaff, agner, by means of fans, Kast-skåfvel, others had a particular machine for the purpose, which was made of wood in shape like a Rännträ or loom in which one weaves cloth, but instead of standing perpendicularly like a loom, this winnower is laid horizontally, as it has to be * From the indiscriminate use by Kalm of the same word for difFerent objects, and of different words for the same parts, the translation of this passage would have been impossible without the figures and a knowledge of the English technical names and uses of the various parts of the hinges and latches described. [J. L.]
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