CHELSEA. IO3 



[T. I. p. 428] honoured us with his company for a couple 

 of hours while we were studying and examining his vast 

 collection. What we now examined was in particular 

 the following [many stones, Agates, Jaspis &c] . . . 

 Puddingstone is the name of a stone which we saw in abund- 

 ance about Little Gaddesden and at other places in 

 Hertfordshire. It is nothing else than a conglomeration, 

 sammangyttring, of several small round flint-stones. 

 In Hertfordshire it was used mostly for land-marks and 

 boundary-stones, ramarken och granse-skilnader, 

 I saw there quite large pieces of it. Here, in Sir Hans 

 Sloane's collection, it was polished, and very much 

 resembled Pudding of several kinds, whence ' it has also 

 acquired its name. In the lapidaries' shops there were 

 [T. I. p. 429] snuff-box lids of it which looked very 

 handsome. The person who showed us this collection 

 to-day told us that a certain Englishman some years ago 

 bought some pieces of this polished, carried them to 

 China, and there sold them, by which he made 1,200 per 

 cent. A good transaction ! . . . [Several stones] 

 cups, &c, some of which have often cost Sir Hans Sloane 

 fifty guineas. [Saucers, spoons, &c.J 



[T. I. p. 430.] Afterwards the most costly stones 

 were shown us, which were arranged in a box made in a 

 particular manner. The box was quadrilateral, a little 

 more than 6 inches long and not quite 6 inches broad, and 

 nearly 6 inches high. On the top it sloped from all sides 

 together,* so that it resembled a monument on a grave, 

 or a house with an Italian roof. It consisted of a great 

 many small boxes, which are not drawn out as usual, 

 but the upper box was always a lid to the under, so that 

 the lowest box had for a lid all the boxes above it. The 

 gems, adla-stenarna, were small and lay in small 



* We should say just the opposite, fj. L.] 



