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on the Thames could be seen quite well. The country 

 all round resembled a garden, and its many hedges pre- 

 vented me from seeing much into the fields. In Kent the 

 country looked like a collection of wood-grown hills, 

 Skog-bevaxta hogder, with ploughed fields among 

 them. 



Hvetet. The wheat was sown in stitches or small 

 ridges. Commonly, such a rygg was ten feet, sometimes, 

 also, twelve feet broad, with water furrows between each 

 rygg. No ditches were used on all the ploughed fields 

 we saw to-day, except by the hedges. The height of the 

 ridges in the middle was six inches, nine inches, or a foot 

 higher than the bottom of the water furrows, and sloped 

 towards both sides. The wheat here stood beautiful, 

 no ears, ax, were yet seen. The barley, kornet, was 

 sown in the same way as with us in Sweden, in broad land. 



Arterna, Pease, were all sown in rows, and there was 

 always three feet and sometimes three feet six inches be- 

 tween the rows. They had with hoes, hackor, cleared away 

 the weeds between the rows, and moved the loose mould, 

 mullen, up towards the stalks of the peas. No pea- 

 sticks, ruskor, or anything else had been laid here for 

 the peas to climb up, but they were lying along the 

 ground as they were large. It was a very convenient 

 fashion to sow pease in this way in rows, i rader, for 

 one could so very easily take away all the weeds 

 with a rake, ty en hade ganska latt fore, at med 

 en kratta utoda ograsen. In the gardens on this 

 side of the town we saw pease [T. I. p. 413] in the same 

 way sown in rows ; but then there was not commonly 

 more than eighteen inches, two feet, or two feet six inches 

 between the rows. 



Bonorna, Beans, on these fields were all sown in 

 broad cast, yet on ten feet wide stitches, but in the market 

 gardens at Southwark the garden beans were all sown in 



