LONDON AND SUBURBS. S3 



England short peruques were mostly used, yet some of 

 the grand people also had " locks " on them, lackar 

 uti. They were dear enough. For one guinea it was 

 passable, and did not look very handsome. I should 

 have to give at least a couple of guineas, if I wished to 

 have one of some value, and a good one. 



I never noticed that any Englishman used boots, 

 Stdflor, in any case, except when he was riding and 

 sitting on a horse.* On other occasions shoes, skor, 

 were always used. Sometimes, when any snow fell in 

 winter, so that it was dirty in the streets, there was here 

 and there an individual who wore boots.t If anyone in 

 any case walked in the town with boots, he had always a 

 riding-whip, piska, in his hand as a sign that he had 

 ridden in, rest in til hast, or was just about to mount 

 and ride out of the town. If he did not do this, he was 

 looked upon as a foreigner, at whom the people could 

 stand and stare, as at something extraordinary. I re- 

 member that, during my visit to the country in dirty and 

 rainy weather, when I had pulled on my boots, to go 

 drier about the feet, I was asked by one and another if I 

 intended to ride out to any place that day in such bad 

 weather. 



The sword, Varja, is very seldom worn except by 

 members of Court, or some foreigner. 

 The 25th May, 1748. 



In the afternoon I went with Dr. Mitchell, Mr. What- 

 son, the well-known Mr. Graham [T. I. p. 424], and some 

 other Fellows of the Royal Society, out to Dulwich, in 

 Surrey, and other places in that neighbourhood, to see 

 what rare plants might be found there, as well as in Kent. 

 The whole of this tract of country was most delightful. 



* " Rida och sitta til hast." Sitta til hast=Lat. Equo insiders. [J. L.] 



"f "Boots [Boltes, Fr.], leather coverings for the legs in traveling." 

 Bailey, Eng. Die, 15th Ed., 1753. [J. L.] 



