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feet above the ground, after which they had struck out a 

 multitude of new shoots, telningar, which were after- 

 wards cut off again, a nyo, as often as they were required. 

 In other places, and everywhere somewhat farther from 

 town, here in Kent, they had hedges of hawthorn round 

 their inclosures, with which afterwards all kinds of leaf 

 trees had mingled themselves. 



Beskaffenheten af hogderna. 



About three or four miles S.E. of London, there lay in 

 Kent some high hills side by side. These were long- 

 sloping on all sides, and consisted of earth, jord. I saw 

 on them, right up to the summit, either arable fields or 

 meadows all divided into small inclosures or tappor, 

 fenced with hawthorn hedges, with a number of other 

 trees among them. The soil, Jordmon, of which the 

 upper crust on these hills consisted, was the brick- 

 colored clay, which is found everywhere round London, 

 den tegel fargade leran som har omkriug London 

 ofver alt finnes, blended with a finer or coarser sand 

 of the same colour. Some of these inclosures were sown 

 with wheat, others with barley ; some with peas and 

 vetches. A great part with beans. Some were laid 

 out as meadows, and now stood in an abundant crop of 

 grass. The earth, jorden, on all these hills commonly 

 looked as if it had been a fine loose powdered brick, en 

 fin 16s sonderstott tegel-sten. The prospect from 

 them was behagelig, delightful. On the west was seen 

 the whole of London, how it lay and extended itself in a 

 crook along the river Thames, and made a show with its 

 many towers. [T. I. p. 412.J The top of St. Paul's 

 Church dome seemed to be almost the same height as these 

 hills. The coal smoke which constantly hangs over 

 London, sufficiently prevented me from seeing it clearly, 

 but it stood as in a fog, tokn. The ships which sailed 



