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[T. I. p. 439.] The 28th May, 1748. 

 Huru ler beredes til tegel-slaning. 



How clay is prepared for brick making. 



Immediately outside the town on the north side near 

 the road to Hampstead, there were large pits where the 

 clay and sand [T. I. p. 440] were dug up, from which 

 they made bricks close by. The soil here consisted of a 

 brick-colored clay, mingled with a fine sand. This sandy 

 clay, sand blandadeleran, was cast together in large 

 heaps in this way, that when one stratum of it had been 

 been laid a foot thick, or less, there was spread over it a 

 stratum of coal ashes about 4 inches thick or less, then 

 sand and clay mixed, after that coal-ashes again, and so 

 on. Next to that the water was led from the ponds, vattu- 

 groparna, to it through troughs, rannor, as much, 

 that is to say, as was required. The sand-mixed clay, 

 coal-ashes, and water, were then mixed together for as 

 long a time as was necessary to mingle them thoroughly 

 together. After that this clay so prepared, was thrown 

 into trucks, karror, specially made for the purpose, and 

 carried to the place where the bricks were made. 



The 2<jth May, 1748. 



In the morning I went in company with Director 

 Campbell out to the Duke of Argyle's house at Whitton, 

 situated ten miles west of London. The Duke himself 

 invited me, and begged me to come there once before I 

 left England, for which visit he himself fixed the day. 

 This Duke's house lies on a great flat common,* et 

 stort flakt fait. The soil was very meagre, mager, 

 nearly all around being bare ling-heath, bara ljung 

 hed ; but the Duke has been able to show what plea- 

 sure, art, and money are able to effect, and that by their 



* Eounslow Heath. [J. L.] 



