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their wheels soon cut deep ruts, hal, down into the 

 ground. To mend these after they have once been made, 

 all the road was hacked up with pickaxes, hackor. After 

 that they took a large harrow on which a weight was 

 laid, with which they afterwards harrowed all the road 

 smooth and even, so that when the horses come on to it 

 walking, they often chose a new track, spar, so that 

 the wheels thus came to go on harder places than before. 

 The road is also often harrowed without being first 

 hacked up, but this is only done when the tracks of the 

 cart wheels, sparen efter karr hjulen, are not 

 particularly [T. I. p. 394] deep. Else it was much the 

 practice here that when the road became uneven it was 

 hacked up, and the hacked-up ground was carried to the 

 wheel-ruts, halen efter hjulen, and filled into them. 



The xoth May, 1748. 

 Koks-krydd-gardar, deras hagnad, ans, etc. 



Market-Gardens, their fences, cultivation, &c. 



I have named above (p. 386 orig.) that the land around 

 Chelsea is almost entirely devoted to nursery and vegetable 

 gardens. The same is true of the land on all sides round 

 about London, that it is mostly used as pleasure-gardens, 

 nurseries, and market gardens : because det Stora 

 London (the vast L.) and the frightful number of people 

 which there crawl in the streets, kralar pa gatorna, 

 pays the market gardeners many fold their labour and 

 outlay. These nurseries and market gardens are sur- 

 rounded either with earth-walls or walls, mull-vallor 

 eller rtmrar, or wooden fences, tra-plank, or living 

 hedges of trees, or with walls of oxhorn, of which more 

 below. The earth-walls have been described above 

 (p. 379 orig.), the walls, Murarna, on p. 381 orig., 

 although the greatest part of them have not such glass- 



