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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    Ans. Absolutely no other. Q. Whether Mr. Ellis gets annually from his arable a more abundant harvest, skörd, than the other farmers ? Ans. Never more than others ; for if he gets more one time, they get more another. Q. Whether Mr. Ellis uses to plough, köra, and treat his arable in any other way than the other farmers in the place ? Ans. Never; but entirely in the same way. Q. Has he a large number of sheep ? Ans. No more than the other farmers, but rather less. Q. Has he a large number of cows? Ans. Two individuals ; for in the whole of Little Gaddesden there are hardly twenty cows in all. Q. Has he a large number of work-people, tjenste- folk ? Ans. One girl and a boy, besides his son and daughter; for in this place it is the custom that a farmer does not keep many servants, but always employs day-labourers, dagsverks-folk, for which reason in every village there live a great many poor, who hire themselves out to work for pence. They gave here eight to ten pence a day to one earl, who for that is obliged to work from 6 o’clock in the morning till 6 in the evening. This character they said they were obliged [T. I. p. 192] to give Ellis: that he never let any of the labouring folk wait for their money, as is otherwise very common, but he gives them each evening their day’s money, sin dags-penning. In the same way he pays down, straxt, those who make any- thing for him. The farmers maintained that Mr. Ellis’s principal occupation consists in writing books, and selling to gentle-
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