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that they cleared away the weeds, and secondly, that 

 they manured the field by their droppings. 



Vaxternas frodighet. The luxuriance of the plants. 

 On all sides around London, both near to the town 

 and also [T. I. p. 414] somewhat farther from it, I 

 remarked that a number of plants were commonly much 

 more luxuriant and larger than with us in Sweden. Thus 

 karrborre-bladen [kard-borre, Lilja, Sk. Fl. 565, 

 Lappa; Arctium Lappa, J. Hooker, St. Fl. 187, Burdock 

 Did, Klissen-kruid ; Ger, Klette, Hoff, 1791, 1. 283 ; Hal. 

 Bardana ; Fr. Bardane.] Burdock leaves, leaves of 

 kattost (Malva) Mallow; so also Senecio Vulg., ground- 

 sel, Aparine Vulg. [Galium Aparine L.J Urtica Urens 

 maxima [U. dioica. L.] great nettle ; hundfloka [" gul 

 stormhatt," Veste; Aconitum Napellus L. Monkshood] 

 and several other such plants were double as large, if 

 not more, as they commonly are in Sweden, which all 

 seems to be a sign of the soil, and its richness hereabouts, 

 partly natural, partly from long continued manuring and 

 turning over. 



The 21st May, 1748. Sir Isaac Newton's Graf. 



Among other beautiful monuments which are erected 

 in St. Peter's or Westminster Abbey Church here in London, 

 where the Kings of England are both crowned and buried, 

 there is also that which has been erected in memory of 

 the great Mathematicus and Philosophus, Sir Isaac Newton.* 

 He lies buried in the nave, i framre delen,f of the 



*This touching dedication of Kalm recalls the words of Hume — " The 

 "severest scrutiny which Newton's theory has undergone, proceeds not 

 "from his own countrymen but from Foreigners, and if it can overcome the 

 "obstacles which it meets with at present in all parts of Europe, it will pro- 

 " bably go down triumphant to the latest posterity." — Essay on the Rise of the 

 Arts and Sciences, 1742. 



f This shows that Kalm must have entered by the West door, now 

 closed. [J. L.] 



