WOODFORD. I4I 



[T. I. p. 173.] The 20th of March. 

 In the morning I went out to Woodford. Spartium 

 589, [S. Scoparium] called by Englishmen Broom, grew 

 in abundance on high-lying pastures, where the soil con- 

 sisted of a coarse sand, en grof-sand. [The Bagshot 

 Sand.] Almost all the brooms, qvastar, which were 

 used, out in the country, to sweep houses with, were 

 made of it. When it was fresh, it had a peculiar and 

 particularly agreeable scent. According to Mr. Warner, 

 this is used by some brewers instead of hops, when the 

 beer, drickat, which' is brewed with it, becomes very 

 strong, and soon makes those who drink it drunk. 



The 2 1st March, 1748. 



Stenvaltar. Stone Rollers, were much used here in 

 gardens and kitchen gardens. The stone itself consisted 

 of a kind of white limestone or coarse species of marble, 

 Marmor, but the rest of the machine, by which it was 

 drawn, was mostly of iron. There were several sizes, 

 according to what one wished to use them for. One of 

 those which lay in Mr. Warner's garden was 2 feet 3 

 inches long ; diameter 21 inches. [T. I. p. 174. J Some 

 others in the same garden were smaller. They were used 

 to draw along the paths in the gardens, which in this 

 district were strown with gravel and coarse sand, grus 

 OCh. grof sand, so as by that means to press down the 

 lumps in the gravel and make the path even and flat. 

 This was done several times in the summer according as 

 the earth in the paths from various causes, such as worms, 

 burrowing, &c, puffed up. For levelling lawns, gras- 

 vallens, or grass, they did not use stone-rollers, but only 

 wooden rollers, travaltar. 



Rokor. Rooks in numbers, injurious to arable fields, 

 and how they are exterminated. In all the villages, byar, 

 in this district there was a frightful number of a kind of 



