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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    feet above tlie ground, after which they had struck out a multitude of nevv shoots, telningar, which were after- wards cut off again, å nyo, as often as they were required. In other places, and everywhere somewhat farther from town, here in Kent, they had hedges of hawthorn round their inclosures, with which afterwards all kinds of leaf trees had mingled themselves. Beskaffenheten af högderna. About three or four miles S.E. of London, there lay in Kent some high hills side by side. These were long- sloping on all sides, and consisted of earth, jord. I saw on them, right up to the summit, either arable fields or meadows all divided into small inclosures or täppor, fenced with hawthorn hedges, with a number of other trees among them. The soil, Jordmon, of which the upper crust on these hills consisted, was the brick- colored clay, which is found everywhere round London, den tegel färgade leran som här omkring London öfver alt finnes, blended with a finer or coarser sand of the same colour. Some of these inclosures were sown with wheat, others with barley; some with peas and vetches. A great part with beans. Some were laid out as meadows, and now stood in an abundant crop of grass. The earth, jorden, on all these hills commonly looked as if it had been a fine loose powdered brick, en fin lös sönderstött tegel-sten. The prospect from them was behagelig, delightful. On the west was seen the whole of London, how it lay and extended itself in a crook along the river Thames, and made a show with its many towers. [T. I. p. 412.] The top of St. PauVs Church dome seemed to be almost the same heiglit as these hills. The coal smoke which constantly hangs over London, sufficiently prevented me from seeing it clearly, but it stood as in a fog, tökn. The ships which sailed
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