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with several smooth streets. All the houses are of brick, 

 very beautifully built, some of which belong to gentlemen 

 and Herrskaper, " Lordships," in London, are hand- 

 somely built. Round about this place the country is full 

 of gardens, orchards and market-gardens, both for plea- 

 sure and use, and it can indeed be said that the country 

 here is everywhere nothing but a garden and pleasance, 

 Tra och lust-gard. 



The river Thames runs close past this parish on the 

 south side, so that the district can conveniently have 

 convoi for passengers from London. Here there is a 

 wooden bridge over the river, built on piles driven down 

 into the bed. All those who walk or drive over it must 

 pay bridge-money, bro-penningar. Each person who 

 goes on foot pays a halfpenny, en halfpence. 



[T. I., p. 397.J 

 Stora fait. Large Common. 



On the other side of the Thames opposite Fulham 

 there lay a large and tolerably flat and bare common, 

 fait, which was abandoned to pastures. It was for 

 the most part overgrown with genista spinosa, furze, which 

 was now in its best flower, so that the whole common 

 shone quite yellow with it. In one place only was it cut 

 down, either for fuel or something else. In some places 

 we saw ling here ; but it was quite small. May not the 

 fertility and goodness of the soil be the reason of that ? 

 And may it not rather thrive better on dry and meagre 

 places, torra och magra stallen. I also saw small 

 plats with Reindeer moss, Ren massa [Lichen rangiferinus], 

 which also was very short. The soil was a brick-colored 

 coarse sand, tegel fargad grof sand, with a little soil, 

 Svartmylla, on the top. [Wimbledon Common and 

 Putney Heath.] 



