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vackert vader, * in the summer come out here, to enjoy 

 themselves, when such people well know [T. I. p. 403] 

 how to charge for what they sell. The principal livelihood 

 of the others seem to be from houses and rooms, which 

 they let to gentlemen, who in summer now and again, 

 especially on Saturdays, Sundays, and part of Monday, 

 come out here from London to stay, and take the fresh 

 air. Rooms are here considerably dearer than in London 

 itself, which is said to be due to this, that they have 

 heavy taxes, utlagor, and that they get no one in the 

 winter time to lodge there, wherefore they are obliged 

 in the summer time, as it were, to take for both at once 

 to compensate for the loss. 



Several houses in this place belong to gentlemen who 

 live and reside in London, and only now and then journey 

 out to Chelsea; but, in short, a third of the houses are said 

 to belong to Sir Hans Shane, who bought them many 

 years ago, and now lets them to different people. 



[T. I. p. 408.] The 18th May, 1748. 

 Sir Hans Shane. 



In the morning I went to Chelsea, and spent part of 

 the morning in Chelsea Apothecaries Garden. After- 

 wards I accompanied Mr. Miller to Sir Hans Sloane to 

 pay my respects to him. He lay to-day in bed, and 

 looked a picture of old age, and was reported to be now 

 in his 94th year. Mr. Miller gave him to understand, 

 gaf honom vid itanden, the reason of my journey, that 

 I was intending to visit the places in North America 

 where no Botanist had been before, there to gather and 

 describe all the plants and trees I should come upon, 



* From Copenhagen to Gottenburg, you have a delightful sail, — if in 

 " vackert vader," as the Swedes say, &c. Sylvanus, Sweden and Gotlland, 1847, 

 8vo. p. 44. [J. L.] 



