LONDON AND SUBURBS. 85 



The 25th Jtme, 1748. 



Kallare och rum under gator. Cellars and 

 rooms under streets. 



Notwithstanding the size of London, still they are 

 careful that no spot of ground shall be left useless 

 and waste. In many places there are passages from 

 houses down under the street to the cellars and other 

 rooms which have been built under the street. In one 

 place and another they had dug up one half of a street, and 

 were then engaged either in walling round an old cellar 

 or in building an entirely new one. Under several of the 

 squares there were also built cellars or other rooms. 



[T. I. p. 472.J 



Sma gardar vid hvart hus. Small yards to each 



house. 



At nearly every house in the town there was either in 

 front towards the street, or inside the house and building, 

 or also in both places, a little yard. They had commonly 

 planted in these yards and round about them, partly in 

 the earth and ground itself, partly in pots and boxes, 

 several of the trees, plants, and flowers which could stand 

 the coal-smoke in London. They thus sought to have 

 some of the pleasant enjoyments of a country life in the 

 midst of the hubbub of the town. 



The 26th June, 1748. 



Huru Sallad tilredes. How Salad is prepared. 



Englishmen commonly prepare their salad thus : They 

 take Lactuca, lettuce, and throw away the outer coarser 

 leaves, because they are bitter, baska. Likewise the 

 coarsest of the stalks are rejected. These lettuce-leaves 

 are cut to pieces very coarsely ; afterwards, a little fine 

 salt is taken, two or three knife-points' full, more or less, 



