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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    which was as hot as when bread is taken out of it ; for if the heat is too great all the fat melts. When the speci- men had remained a short time in the oven it was taken out to cool. It was again put in the oven, and left there till it was quite dry ; for the trick consists in this, that it must not be dried too quickly, but gradually Afterwards, if one wishes to carry them anywhere, they are laid in casks, tunnor, or such like, snuff is sprinkled over and in them, to drive away moth, mal, and other injurious insects, skade-kräk. Fish are best preserved in spiritu Vini. [T. I. p. 422.] Hvart land har Sin Sed. Each country has its peculiar customs in one thing and another, and so it is in England. I believe there is scarcely a country where one gets to see so many Peruques as here. I will not mention that nearly all the principal ladies, and also a part of the commoner folk, wear Peruques, but I only speak of the men, who in short, all wore them. The boy was hardly in breeches before he came out with a Peruque on his head, which was sometimes not much smaller than himself. It did not, therefore, strike one as being at all wonderful to see farm-servants, Bonde-dränger, clodhoppers, Torpare, day-labourers, dagsverks-karlar, Farmers, Bönder, in a word, all labouring-folk go through their usual every-day duties all with Peruques on the head. Few, yea, very few, were those who only wore their own hair. I had to look around a long time in a church [T. 1. p. 423] or other gathering of people, before I saw any- one with his own hair. I asked the reason for the dislike of, and the low estimation in which they here held their own hair ? The answer was, that it was nothing more than the custom and mode. Here in
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