24 KALM S ENGLAND. 



hardly be any land where larger carts and wagons are 

 used, and heavier loads are laid on them than in England, 

 where three times as much, if not more, is loaded on a 

 public coach, en for-vagn, as in Sweden. However, I 

 have seen such bridges everywhere in use where I have 

 travelled in England, in Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, 

 Buckinghamshire, Essex, Middlesex, Surrey and Kent. 

 We could scarcely make a better use of our abundant 

 granites, gra-stenar, than they if they were employed for 

 this purpose. 



The zjth March, 1748. 



To-day I went up inside the Monument, as it is called, 

 in London, and inspected the same. Many would shudder 

 to look down from such a height, and wonder how so 

 high and narrow a pillar of stone, which is hollow within, 

 so that one can go up by steps inside it to the top, has 

 been able to stand for so many years steady and firm. 

 It seems, however, that those who live round about it on 

 all sides, have difficulty in controlling their fears for the 

 same in heavy storms, but further on more shall be given 

 about this. 



[T. I. p. 375-J 



To get an abundance of Kitchen Garden Plant Seeds. 



The market gardeners around London have commonly 

 the custom that they do not employ their time in sowing 

 and cultivating all sorts of garden and kitchen garden 

 produce, but they mostly keep to something special. 

 Thus some are only used to sow beans, peas and spinach, 

 spinat, and leave out the other vegetables. Others 

 again do not trouble themselves about those, but propa- 

 gate other plants. Some do not devote themselves to 

 fraga ej efter, the planting and cultivation of any 

 particular plants to sell for household use, but devote 

 all their time and labour to sowing all kinds of plants tor 



