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 walls were built of boards, nailed horizontally over one another. The ordinary houses in which the folk lived, consisted often of two or three stories, våningar, seldom of one only. I speak now of Farm-houses or Bonde-gårdar. The roofs of the houses were all of tiles, tak-tegel,* both of the square and flat sorts, and of that which resembles gutters, rännor, such as are used with us in Sweden. The former, or the square sort, was most used. This seemed to have the advan- tage of the [T. I. p. 167] concava, or gutter-like tiles, because if one or more tiles of this sort cracked, the water could still not run down through it, as almost always happens with the concave. In some places, in laying the roof with such square and flat tiles, they had smeared clay under the tiles by which means it was made impossible that either rain or snow could be, by wind or blast, driven into the loft. The chimneys were commonly built in one of the gable-walls, often so far out, that the gable-wall formed one side of the chimney, and the three others were altogether outside the building. This had the advantage, .that if the soot were to take fire in the chimney, and the chimney cracked, there was still seldom any fear of fire in the building. The lyth March, 1748. Huru Hästar Spännas före, Köras, etc. How hor ses are put to, driven, &c. The vehicles, åkdon, which are used here in England, are wagons and carts, Vagnar och Kärror. As has been said before, they do not know of the Sled, Släda, because the snow, which seldom lies on the ground over a coupleof days, does not Ihackiiles. Roof tiles; opposed to wall tiles, or bricks. North.” Grose. Prov. G/oss. Suppt. 2nd Ed. Lond. 1790. 8°- but wrongly explained in I3ailey Eng. Dic. Ed. 1753. 8°' [J. L.j
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