00 KALM S ENGLAND. 



autumn, when others are pale and shed them, besides its 

 manifold usefulness for all kinds of carpenter's and 

 turner's work, til allehanda snickare-och svarfvare 

 arbeten. 



The 28th June, 1748. 



Brod. The bread which here in England was every- 

 where and exclusively used, at least where I travelled, 

 was large loaves, limpor, baked of wheat-flour, hvete- 

 mjdl. Other bread is next to never eaten. Most 

 Englishmen had scarcely heard tell of rye-bread, hort 

 talas om rag-brdd ; few had seen it, and still fewer 

 were those who had eaten it. Many also did not [T. I. 

 p. 475] know, that anyone was in the habit of baking 

 bread of rye, but they thought that it was only used as 

 food for cattle. This ought all to be understood of those 

 who lived in London and the provinces immediately 

 round ; for several told me that in the north of England 

 it is common enough to bake bread of rye-meal. Like- 

 wise that there are large tracts in the north where most 

 of the people mostly live on Haver-bread, Hafre-brod, 

 [oatmeal cakes.*] In London they sometimes, at break- 

 fast, til-frukost, eat with butter, while they drink tea, a 

 kind of thin, small, round cakes, which are snow-white, 

 taste very nice, and are said to be made of the finest 

 Haver-meal. But still wheat-loaves are the principal 

 sort. 



[T. I. p. 186.J The 25th March, 1748. 



A great Fire in London. 



To-day there happened the great conflagration in 

 London in which over 100 houses near the Royal Ex- 

 change were burned down. It was generally considered 

 that there had not been so large a fire in London since 



* See Lucas' Studies in Nidderdale IV., 1872, 8vo. 



