114 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



depicted in Mr. Catesby's beautiful work on Carolina. 

 Some gentlemen in Virginia had also got these oxen 

 tolerably tame, but they have nevertheless, mostly, in 

 the end to shoot them dead, on account of the great 

 damage they have caused ; for when they have been let 

 loose, they have not indeed run away but have remained 

 at the farm, and gone in to any enclosure they chose, 

 eaten up and trampled down the crops and other 

 planted things ; because no hedge can be so strong 

 that they could not knock it down with their horns or 

 at least make themselves an opening or gap through it. 



[T. I. p. 405.] The 16th May, 1748. 



Svinens foda, Kott, &c, in North America. Dr. 

 Mitchel said that there is hardly in any part of the 

 world more beautiful and well-flavoured pork, svin- 

 kott, than in North America. This he principally 

 ascribed to the maize, which is there planted, and grows 

 in abundance, and on which the swine are fed. They 

 are also driven into the oakwoods in the autumn, where 

 they feed on the numerous acorns, ek-ollen, which are 

 there found. 



[T. I. p. 409.J The x8th May, 1748. 



Friesland nu forloradt. Friesland now lost. 



In the morning I called upon Dr. Mortimer, who was 

 Secretary of the Royal Society. Among other subjects 

 that we talked about, he asked me if I knew what had 

 become of the Friesland, which in former times was 

 named as a land which lay west of Iceland. He showed 

 a couple of old maps, Landt-chartor, both of which 

 had Friesland shown as a large island, getting on for 

 half as large as Iceland and west of it. On Friesland 

 there were shown the names of many havens and places. 



