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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    It went up and down in long sloping hills with valleys between. We had a continuous series of well-built villages, gentlemen’s houses, ploughed fields, meadows, orchards and gardens, kitchen - gardens, commons, utmarker, &c. . The country was everywhere divided into small m- closures, with hawthorn and other hedges round them, so that one could only suppose that he was travelling all the way through a garden. Here and there appeared small woods of all sorts of leaf-trees. When a view of the country was obtained from some of the highest hills, backar, it looked pretty enough ; but the great number of hedges caused it to look, a little farther off, as though it were entirely overgrown with woods, through which some brick house peeped here and there ; for as the inclosures were for the most part small here, the hedges prevented the ploughed fields and meadows which lay between them from being seen. [Defer American Note.] [T. I. p. 425.] Gödsel lagd i högar; ängars gödning. Manure Iciid in heaps ; manuring meadows. Nearly everywhere here in England it was the prac- tice to carry out dung and other dirt, which is collected in farms and villages, and lay it in large heaps by the ploughed fields, to lie there for a ti me and ferment toge- ther. Those who live round London buy the dung and refuse which is collected in the streets, and carried out and laid in large heaps outside the town. This manure they afterwards carry out in the spring on to their mea- dows, market gardens, ploughed fields, &c., lay it in some corner of them, or also on the common close by, in a great heap, where it lies the whole summer under the
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