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songs and music cease, and all the guests hurry away. 

 [T. I. p. 451.J There are here ready all the statues and 

 ornaments which are used in gardens. Thus the means 

 of supporting themselves and earning money are mani- 

 fold. Here the musicians and men and women singers 

 earn their subsistence. Here those make large profits 

 who sell various kinds of provisions. Rowers and hire- 

 coachmen are well satisfied with this institution, because 

 they have a large profit out of the large number of people 

 going and coming thither and thence, partly in chaises, 

 partly in boats, dit och dadan, dels i vagn, dels 

 med bat. The owner, who leases out this pleasure- 

 garden to those who make all these arrangements, is said 

 to gather a pretty penny, vaekra penningar, out of it 

 in the summer.* I will not now talk about the ruffians, 

 skalmar, who often plunder and rob those who are 

 leaving it at night. Meantime, its use by folk may in a 

 certain way be good, but then it is certain that it is also 

 in some ways harmful, men sa slar det ej felt at den 

 OCk i somt ar Skadelig, because the youth is not a 

 little ruined through it when he gets into a habit of 

 coming here every evening. He gets accustomed to do 

 no work, and, on the other hand, to squander money in 

 various ways. Young ladies, also, might not always be 

 improved to the pitch of perfection here. 



The xoth June, 1748. 

 Mr. Peter Collinson's Garden at Peckham- 



In the afternoon I went out to Peckham, a pretty 

 village, en vacker by, which lies three miles from 

 London, in Surrey, where Mr. Peter Collinson has a 

 beautiful little garden, full of all kinds of the rarest plants, 



* " Samla vaokra penningar," it is curious to find this expression, 

 though in the plural, in the Swedish. [J. L.] 



