THE VOYAGE FROM GROMSTAD TO ENGLAND. 5 



In other respects, the country sometimes appeared 

 hilly but without any rocks except the chalk, Krit- 

 bargen. On the hills, and also in many other places, 

 there appeared leafwoods* and beautiful plantations, 

 lofskog och skona lundar, whose trees were in some 

 places tall enough. 



Krittbrott. A chalk pit was also remarked here 

 and there on the banks of the river, as at Cliffe and 

 Purfleet. 



Par och hastar. Sheep and horses appeared every- 

 where on the ploughed fields and pastures, betesmarker, 

 though the weather was still chilly enough. The ground 

 was everywhere bare, so that not the smallest sign of 

 snow was seen, but the fields began in some places to 

 look tolerably green. 

 Arundo, 99, vulg. [A. Phragmites, L., now P. communis.] 



The Heed grew in abundance near the banks of the 

 river. We also saw it cut, bound in sheaves, and laid in 

 great heaps on the river banks. Wooden houses were in 

 many places thatched with it. 



There were walls, vallar, on the edge of the river's 

 bank, between the river and the adjacent meadows and 

 ploughed fields, about 4 feet high, which consisted of 

 earth, mull, with planks outside towards the river to 

 prevent [T. I. p. 142] the river from overflowing the 

 ploughed fields and meadows when a very high tide 

 occurred. In some places these walls were of earth 

 only, af bara jord. 



In the sequel they shall be fully described. 



* A natural observation for one coming from a land of pines. [J. L.] 



