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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    [T. I. p. 406.] The xyth May, 1748. Fences or barriers around meadows, market gardens, &c., of Ox-horn. I have above in several places described the fence, stängsel och hägnad, which they mostly use near London round their kitchen gardens and meadows, &c., which consists of high cast-up earth walls, mull-vallar, but now I will tell about another kind of fence, hägnad, which they also avail themselves of here very much, and is such: An earth-wall is cast up in the usual way. The breadth or thickness at the ground is made proportionate to the height of the intended fence, for the higher the wall the broader the basis. When the earth has been cast up to a height of about six inches it is levelled all over the top. Thereupon they have ready to hand a multitude of the quicks or inner parts of Ox- horns ; for the outer part of the horn itself, is taken off and sold to comb-makers and others who work in horn ; or these have, after they have bought the whole horn from the butcher, retained the outerpart, and left the inner and useless part for this behoof. This quick is so cut off that part of the skull commonly goes with it. The quicks are then set quite close beside one another over the earth that has been cast up for the wall, and this so that the larger and thicker ends of the quick, or that to which a portion of the skull is attached, is turned outwards or lies just in the face of the side of the wall. In this way two rows of quicks are laid, viz.: one row on one side of the wall, and the other on the other, so that the small ends of the horn quicks meet in the middle. Over this is afterwards cast earth about six inches thick, when again in the aforenamed manner is laid a slratum of double-ranged ox-horn quicks [T. I. p. 407], viz., so that one row turns the large ends towards one side, and the other towards the other. It is thus continued alternately, skiftevis, with earth
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