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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    and description in Mr. Ellis’s Agriculture improv'd. Item, a sieve with Steel wires, et Såll med stål-trå, to separate the small wheat and barley-corns from the large, by that means to obtain a choice and much-sought-after seed-corn; item, three small treatises which lay ready and fair-copied for the press. They treated of the management of sheep and the duties of the shepherd. These treatises waited for the printer who would pay most for them. The)7 have since been printed under the name of “ The Shepherd’s Sure Guide,” together with a lot of letters to him, and several which he himself had written. I asked Mr. Ellis whether he had at his own house all the kinds of ploughs which he describes in his writings, and particularly those which he praised so highly for their usefulness. He answered “ No,” and gave as a reason that if he had them at home he could not have them in peace, partly because gentlemen took them away, partly that they were stolen by others. I then asked if he had not at home the useful ploughs and other kinds of machinery which he himself had invented. He answered “ No,” and gave the same reason for not having them. I asked, supposing anyone wanted them how one could get them made, and if there was any- one in the village who constructed them ? He answered that none can make them here, for it requires a singu- larly intelligent head for the purpose, but he had a man who lived 30 or 40 English miles from Little Gaddesden at whose place he had all such things made for one and all of the eminent persons and others, who ordered them. It is, therefore, obligatory on those who wish to have [T. I. p. 190] such a plough or implement to pay the cost of its carriage from the maker to Mr. Ellis, as well as thence to London, or to any place one might wish. During my visit to Little Gaddesden I enquired on
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