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At forekomma dam pa vagar. To prevent dust on 



roads. 



From the sun and strong west wind, the roads were 

 now so dry that when vehicles, vagnar, and horses went 

 on them there rose from them so much dust, stoft och 

 dam, that it was very difficult to get along, for both eyes, 

 mouth and nose were filled with it. Trees and plants by 

 the wayside were covered with it. To remedy this we 

 saw at one place a man driving a cart, karra, which was 

 made like a brad-lar, or large wooden box, but had at 

 the back a transverse row of small holes. This box, 

 kista, was now full of water, and when a board at the back 

 which stopped up the holes was raised the water ran out 

 by degrees where the man drove, and made the road 

 quite wet, so that the dust could no longer rise up. It 

 was in front of a gentleman's house that he drove up and 

 down the road with his cart. I afterwards saw at several 

 places [T. I. p. 398] such carts used, especially when 

 the King went up to Parliament. 



[T. I. p. 403. J The 15th May, 1748. 



In the afternoon I walked out on the North side of 

 the town to see the country on that side. The land here 

 was mostly divided into grass fields, angs-tappor. 

 Beautiful and very well-built villages, farm-houses, and 

 buildings were scattered here and there amongst them. 

 These villages and houses were commonly surrounded 

 with beautiful gardens. A multitude of people now 

 streamed out here from all sides of London to enjoy 

 Iheir Sunday afternoon and take the fresh air. In all the 

 aforesaid villages there was a superfluity of beer-shops, 

 inns, and such-like houses, where those who came from 

 the town rested. There were also small summer houses, 

 lust-hus, built in the gardens, with benches and tables in 



