56 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



that rye would thrive here very well, if they had not wheat, 

 which always has the preference. 



Senfardig "Var. Late Spring. 

 Everyone here in England said that all vegetation 

 was three weeks later than it had been for many, indeed 

 for sixty years [1688] in this country ; when we never- 

 theless thought that it was three weeks earlier than it 

 could be about Stockholm in Sweden, at this time in 

 ordinary course. 



Halso-brunnar och hus dervid. 



Mineral waters and houses near them. 



At one place there were on the side of a hill some pit- 

 wells dug in the bank, whose water they use to drink in 

 the summer, like that of any other mineral spring, SUT- 

 brunnars. The water had no outlet, and tasted like 

 the water in ordinary clay-pits, ler-gropar, and it seems 

 that the benefit of this exists only in folks' imagination. 

 Several cabins, kojor, were built close by for the visitors 

 to the spring. The walls were of sods, the roof of furze, 

 and the bare ground [T. I. p. 427] served for a floor. 



At Dulwich there was a well dug and walled round 

 deep down into the earth, which had the reputation of 

 having restored many to health. The water was said to 

 be purging. The great heat and thirst drove us to drink 

 a great quantity of it, without the slightest effect. 



Matvarors pris i Krigstiden. 



The price of provisions in time of war. 



I asked whether provisions were dearer here in Eng- 

 land in war time than at other times. They answered 

 " No," but they are then commonly cheaper. The reason 

 is that it is then forbidden to carry them out of the king- 

 dom. That meat was now dear was due to the cattle 

 disease which had carried off such a number of animals. 



