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[T. I. p. 148. J The 4th March, 1748. 

 Bot for Brannsar. 



Remedy for burns. Among remedies for burns it is 

 reckoned an exceedingly good one to rub the burned 

 place with ink, bleck, directly one has burned oneself, 

 which not only prevents blisters from rising, but also at 

 the same time heals, which effects are attributed to the 

 vitriol in the ink. 



The yth March. 



Epping Forest. Immediately to the North and East 

 of Woodford there lies a beautiful forest, 16f-skog. The 

 soil, as in the whole district, is en grof rodaktig 

 eller tegel-fargad sand, som liar kallas gravel, a 



coarse reddish or brick-colored sand, which is here called 

 gravel, mixed with a fine earth and a quantity of ordinary 

 blackish flints. The forest is high-lying. Rabbits and 

 roe-deer are said to abound in it, though we did not see 

 any when we passed through it. Nor did we find any 

 plants in this forest in flower, excepting the trees named 

 below. Otherwise the ground was everywhere green. 

 The trees had not been allowed to grow high, ej fatt 

 vaxa langa, but after they had obtained a height of 

 9-12 feet they had polled them for firewood, ved, or 

 some other purpose. They had afterwards thrown out 

 many branches, and thus made a crown. 



The trees which we found in this forest were the 

 following : 



Ilex foliis ovatis acutis spinosis, Linn. Hort. Ups. 32, 

 Agrifolium, &c, of Ray, called by the English Holly, was 

 here the commonest of all trees. (I. Aquifolium.) 



It grew mostly in bushes, but sometimes as trees of 

 12 feet high. The reason of its short growth was, that it 

 was cut off by the surrounding inhabitants for firewood, 

 ved. This [T. I. p. 149] bush which keeps its green and 



