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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    different occasions—not one, but very many—of those who lived here—farmers and other men—where and at whose establishment they believed Mr. Ellis had his implements and ploughs, &c., made. They answered that all implements that gentlemen, and others who had read his writings, order of him, are made by the plough- maker, Plog-makaren, who lived close beside the house where I lodged, for Mr. Ellis gives him the model and describes it to him, and contracts with him what he shall have for the woodwork, but the smith who lived close to the park (Ashridge Park), constructs the iron, according to the model and description Mr. Ellis has given him, and that he receives from Mr. Ellis the payment they have agreed upon, som de kommit öfverens om. Afterwards, Mr. Ellis sets whatever price he likes on the ploughs or implements which have been ordered of him. These farmers denied entirely that Mr. Ellis had his implements made at the establishment of any other man at a distance from here, as he himself told me. Still, I put to those who lived here, not once, but many times, the following questions :—Q. Whether Mr. Ellis uses, or has used, on his arable land any other kinds of implements than the other Farmers in this parish or village ? All answered unanimously that he had never used other or more than they, and that the ploughs which he uses are the same as they had used from time immemorial [T. I. p. 191], only they said that he on some single occasion, for his amusement, may have used some others, perhaps, for an hour. They unanimously bore testimony to the fact that he sells a number of the same implements as he has described in his books, to different gentlemen. Q. Whether Mr. Ellis uses on his arable any other kind of manure than the other farmers in Little Gaddesden ?
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