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no way be compared with our Swedish ones. I here 

 refer especially to the southern parts and around London, 

 for farther north in England also, they are sharper. 

 The snow seldom lies more than two or three days on 

 the ground. Cows, horses, sheep and other animals here 

 go out the whole winter, and feed on the grass which 

 stands green and nourishing the whole year through. 

 There is no month in the year in which they cannot 

 plough and sow the fields. November, December, 

 January, February and March are seldom so cold 

 that any frost, tjala, could prevent them from tilling 

 the ground, for which reason also there are found 

 set forth in English agricultural books what ploughing 

 and duties in the fields, akersyslor, they have to 

 perform in each of these months. There is no one here 

 who knows what a sled, slade, is ; because the snow 

 seldom lies so long that anyone would be able to use 

 one. Sledge, which Lexicographi make in English the 

 same as slada in Swedish, is nothing but a slapa. 

 How it is farther north, I leave there.* The winter 

 conies here very late and goes away very early, if at 

 least I can call it winter, for the English winters are 

 commonly such as September in Osterbotten and 

 October in Stockholm. From such a climate and so 

 mild winters an English farmer or Landtman derives 

 many advantages, which a Swedish Bonde, does not 

 enjoy. An English farmer escapes the greater part of 

 our winter charges, Vinter-korslor. The mild winters 

 enable him to use sticks instead of logs for fuel, Ris 

 i stallet for ved til bransle, and make it unnecessary 

 for him to [T. I. p. 159] employ a great part of the 

 winter in sawing up wood, til veds korning. His 



* The Sled is used on the Pennine Chain, For a sketch of one form see 

 Studies in Nidderdale " Glossary, s.v. [J, L ] 



