72 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



like the Quakers, who are never baptised, and^riever go 

 to God's Holy Communion, heliga Nattvard, because 

 they say that they are spiritually baptised, dopte pa et 

 andeligt satt, and also are spiritually partakers of our 

 Saviour's body and blood, besides some other points in 

 which they err. 



Further on, in my description of Pennsylvania, which 

 is a place entirely of Quakers, I have more to tell about 

 this people, when I shall produce the Rules and Church 

 Ordinances, according to which they are regulated, and 

 which they hold as a chose sainte, en heligdom, that 

 only the principal among them have in manuscript, but 

 which are never allowed, with their knowledge, to be seen 

 by anyone else. [Kalm did not fulfil this promise.] 



[T. I. p. 461.] The 17th June, 1748. 

 Brist pa Spring-kallor omkring London. 



Want of Spring-wells round London. 



On all sides of London which I visited I do not know 

 that I ever saw any springs, kalla, which spring up out 

 out the earth, such as occur everywhere in Sweden, but 

 nearly all the water which they use in London and the 

 villages round it, is led to the town or villages partly 

 through underground pipes or tubes from some lake or 

 river far away, and partly they have dug large pits and 

 ponds where the rain-water is collected. Thus there is 

 found in nearly every meadow a large pond, grop, with 

 sloping banks on all sides in which is collected an 

 abundance of water, which serves for the cattle to drink 

 when they are kept in these enclosures. Notwithstand- 

 ing this want of springs around London, yet no place in 

 the world [T. I. p. 462] suffers less from want of water 

 than this town, where superabundant water is led through 

 underground channels to each and every house, or also 



