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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    with several smooth streets. All the houses are of brick, very beautifully built, some of which belong to gentlemen and Herrskaper, “ Lordships,” in London, are hand- soinely built. Round about this place the country is full of gardens, orchards and market-gardens, both for plea- sure and use, and it can indeed be said that the country here is everywhere nothing but a garden and pleasance, Trä och lust-gård. The river Thames runs close past this parish on the south side, so that the district can conveniently have convoi for passengers from London. Here there is a wooden bridge over the river, built on piles driven down into the bed. All those who walk or drive over it must pay bridge-money, bro-penningar. Each person who goes on foot pays a halfpenny, en lialfpence. [T. I., p. 397.] Stora fält. Lar ge Common. On the other side of the Thames opposite Fulhain there lay a large and tolerably flat and bare common, fält, which was abandoned to pastures. It was for the most part overgrown with genista spinosa, furze, which was now in its best flower, so that the whole common shone quite yellow with it. In one place only was it cut down, either for fuel or something else. In some places we saw ling here ; but it was quite small. May not the fertility and goodness of the soil be the reason of that ? And may it not rather thrive better on dry and meagre places, torra och magra ställen. I also saw small platswith Reindeennoss, Ren måssa [Lichen rangiferinus], which also was very short. The soil was a brick-colored coarse sand, tegel färgad grof sand, with a little soil, Svartmylla, on the top. [Wimbledon Common and Putney Heath.]
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