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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    that rye would thrive here very well, if they had not wheat, which always has the preference. Senfärdig Vår. Late Spring. Everyone here in England said that all vegetation was three weeks later than it had been for many, indeed for sixty years [1688] in this country ; when we never- theless thought that it was three weeks earlier than it could be about Stockholm in Sweden, at this time in ordinary course. Hälso-brunnar och hus dervid. Mineral waters and houses near them. At one place there were on the side of a hill some pit- wells dug in the bank, whose water they use to drink in the summer, like that of any other mineral spring, sur- brunnars. The water had no outlet, and tasted like the water in ordinary clay-pits, ler-gropar, and it seems that the benefit of this exists only in folks’ imagination. Several cabins, kojor, were built close by for the visitors to the spring. The walls were of sods, the roof of furze, and the bare ground [T. I. p. 427] served for a floor. At Dulwich there was a well dug and walled round deep down into the earth, which had the reputation of having restored many to health. The water was said to be purging. The great heat and thirst drove us to drink a great quantity of it, without the slightest effect. Matvarors pris i Krigstiden. The price of provisions in time of war. I asked whether provisions were dearer here in Eng- land in war time than at other times. They answered “ No,” but they are then commonly cheaper. 1 lie reason is that it is then forbidden to carry them out of the king- dom. That meat was now dear was due to the cattle disease which had carried off sucli a number of animals.
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