30 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



spread out and fastened on to them when one wished to 

 force them to fruit early [T. I. p. 382] which has been 

 treated of above. But to prevent thieves from being 

 able to climb over the walls, they had daubed clay, 

 smetat ler, on the top of it 6 inches high, and 6 inches 

 to a foot wide. In this clay, when it had only just been 

 laid on the wall, they had everywhere stuck at random, 

 a large number of bits of broken bottles, bouteiller, glass, 

 glass-decanters, glas-fiaskor, and such like, which turned 

 their sharp edges, hvassa kanter, upwards and towards 

 all sides, and prevented anyone who had the desire to 

 climb over the wall from taking hold of it with the bare 

 hands, lest these sharp and edged glass-bits should cut 

 his hands all to pieces ; and when he in climbing over 

 should get so far as to sit on the wall, he might get so 

 much cut that he would not be so soon cured after it. In 

 England it is very easy to get such broken glass-bits at 

 inns and beershops, of which there are here so large a 

 number. 



The -3rd May, 1748. 



Hjelp for Prast-barn. Help for Priests' Children. 



To-day Vocal and Instrumental Musique was performed 

 in St. Paul's Cathedral, by more than 100 performers, 

 where a considerable number of people assembled to 

 hear it. No one was admitted who had not paid a fixed 

 charge, which was regulated according to the place he 

 wished to have in the church. The money thus collected 

 was distributed to poor priests' children for their main- 

 tenance and education. The London Gazette related that 

 they collected to-day in this way something more than 

 £400 sterling. This which took place to-day was only a 

 Prceludium to a great Musique which was fixed for the fol- 

 lowing Thursday, or the 5th hujus in St. Paul's Cathedral, 

 when the Archbishop [T. I. p. 313] of Canterbury, nearly 



