IO KALM'S ENGLAND. 



the walls were built, of boards, nailed horizontally over 

 one another. The ordinary houses in which the folk 

 lived, consisted often of two or three stories, vaningar, 

 seldom of one only. I speak now of Farm-houses or 

 Bonde-gardar. The roofs of the houses were all of 

 tiles, tak-tegel,* both of the square and flat sorts, and of 

 that which resembles gutters, rannor, such as are 

 used with us in Sweden. The former, or the square 

 sort, was most used. This seemed to have the advan- 

 tage of the [T. I. p. 167] concava, or gutter-like tiles, 

 because if one or more tiles of this sort cracked, the 

 water could still not run down through it, as almost 

 always happens with the concave. In some places, in 

 laying the roof with such square and flat tiles, they had 

 smeared clay under the tiles by which means it was made 

 impossible that either rain or snow could be, by wind or 

 blast, driven into the loft. The chimneys were commonly 

 built in one of the gable-walls, often so far out, that the 

 gable-wall formed one side of the chimney, and the three 

 others were altogether outside, the building. This had 

 the advantage, that if the soot were to take fire in the 

 chimney, and the chimney cracked, there was still seldom 

 any fear of fire in the building. 



The lyth March, 1748. 



Huru Hastar Spannas fore, Koras, etc. 



How horses are put to, driven, &c. The vehicles, akdon, 

 which are used here in England, are wagons and carts, 

 Vagnar OCh Karror. As has been said before, they 

 do not know of the Sled, Slada, because the snow, which 

 seldom lies on the ground over a couple of days, does not 



* " Thacktiles. Roof tiles ; opposed to wall tiles, or bricks. North." 

 Grose. Prov. Gloss. Suppl. 2nd Ed. Lond. 1790. 8°- but wrongly explained 

 in Bailey Eng. Die. Ed. 1753. 8°- [J.L.] 



