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everywhere stood up to my waist, when I went in the 

 meadows, and was so thick that there could never be any 

 thicker. Bromus, 52 [" var. secalini"], Alopecurus, 

 52 [A. pratensis'], Poa 78 [P. Pratensis'], which had now 

 begun to stick themselves up in abundance, made at this 

 time all the beautiful grass-growth that was found here. 

 The meadows were very even and smooth, jamna och 

 slata, with not a single hillock, tufVa, on them. The 

 grass was cut off as near the ground as the scythe could 

 go, so that there were scarcely i\ inches of stub, stubbe, 

 left remaining. When the grass was newly mown, the stub 

 near the ground was nearly white, which was caused by 

 the grass growing so very thick. Also the lower part of 

 the new-mown hay was quite white for the same reason. 

 On account of the luxuriant and thick grass-growth the 

 mower could not progress at each stroke of the scythe, 

 lie-tag, farther than a short 6 inches, for the grass was 

 so thick that he was not able to drive his strokes farther 

 in, at ban ej orkade taga djupare in i sander. 

 It has been often mentioned above that all these meadows 

 are manured once a year with the choicest manure. 



[T. I. p. 468.] The z\th June, 1748. 



AngS-bruket i Middlesex. Use of the Meadows in 

 Middlesex. 



Mr. P. Collinson related to me an account of the trade 

 fod-krok, and livelihood, narings-medel, which the 

 farmers, inhabitants of Middlesex, practise, specially on 

 the side on which Hampstead lies, and beyond or north 

 of that. It consists in this, that the farmers or 

 Landtmannerna there lay out all the ground and land 

 which they have, only and solely as meadow, without 

 themselves having any ploughed land, or feeding any 

 cattle, excepting some few horses, which they require for 



