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

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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$prison. [T. I. p. 180.] In the town there are four churches, but one of them is used as a market-place. Hempstead (Hemel Hemsted) is situated 5 miles from St. Alban’s, and 25 from London. The town is small but tolerably pretty, lies down in a dale, däld, and has a church with a high tower. Little Gaddesden is a long village situated 30 English miles from London. We arrived there at six o’clock in the evening. I shall have farther on a better opportunity of describing this place. Now, I will give several notes Which I made to-day on the journey between \\ oodford and Little Gaddesden. The appearance of the country which we passed through to-day was simply beautiful. There was not the smallest sign either of rock or granite, bärg eller gråsten. It was not entirely even and flat, but went in a continuous succession of undulations so that it was like a collection of hills and dales; yet the hills were for the most part very long-sloping down into the dales. Between these ridges there sometimes flowed a little beck. Jordmon, the soil, was here the same as in Essex and Hertfordshire, viz.: on the top, soil, svartmylla, but immediately under that a reddish-yellow or Ochre- colored clay, lera, mixed with a number of pieces of flint, and, in the neighbourhood of Essex, of a similar colored gravel or coarse sand, groft grus. Around Hemp- stead in Hertfordshire, the hills consisted partly of clialk. All these hills and dales were divided into arable fields, meadows, and pastures, the spaces near the towns or villages being occupied by gardens and kitchen-gardens side by side, and here and there beautiful parks of all sorts of different kinds of trees, which were for the most part fenced round with living hedges of various leaf*$