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employed the remainder of the day in converfing 

 with the mod confiderable people in town, who 

 had lived here for a long while, and I enquired 

 into the curiolities hereabouts. 



MR. Cock had a fine fpring near Ms houfe; 

 it came from a fandy hill, and afforded water 

 enough conftantly to fill a little brook. Juft above 

 this fpring Mr. Cock had ereded a building from, 

 thofe above-mentioned glittering flones, into 

 which were put many jugs, and other earthen veffels 

 full of milk : for it kept very well in cold water 

 during the great heat with which the fummer is 

 attended here. 



I AFTERWARDS met with many houfes which 

 were fituated like this, on fprings, and therefore 

 were deftined to keep the meat and milkfrefh. 



ALMOST all the enclofures round the corn- 

 fields and meadows hereabouts, were made of 

 planks fattened in a horizontal direction. I only 

 perceived a hedge of privet in one fingle place. 

 The enclofures were not made like ours ; for the 

 people here take pofts from four to fix feet in 

 height, and make two or three holes into them, 

 fo that there was a diftance of two feet and above 

 between them. Such a pott does the fame fer- 

 vice as two, and fometimes three poles are 

 Icarce fufficient. The pofts were fattened in the 

 ground, at two or three fathoms dlftance from 

 each other, and the holes in them kept up the 

 planks, which were nine inches, and fometimes 

 a foot broad, and lay above each other from one 

 poft to the next. Such an enclofure therefore 

 looked at a diftance like the hurdles in which 

 we enclofe the iheep at night in Sweden. They 



F 4 were 



