I46 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



[T. I. p. 340.J The 15th April, 1748. 



We left Little Gaddesden in the morning and 

 travelled this day, first to St. Alban's, and afterwards 

 to Colney, situated three miles the other side of St. 

 Alban's. 



A couple of miles after we left Little Gaddesden, we 

 came to Great Gaddesden, which is a Parish, but has not 

 so many farms and houses as Little Gaddesden, which 

 contradicts its name, for Little Gaddesden means 

 " Lilla G.," and Great Gaddesden means " Stora G." 

 Perhaps it may have been larger in former times."* 



Prospecten af landet. 



Between Little Gaddesden and St. Alban's the country 

 was a continuous series of hills and dales. It much 

 resembled the country between Tveer and Moscow, but 

 still more between Moscow and Toulou, Tula, in Russia. 



The hills were high, and consisted of chalk, but the 

 highest crust of the often before-mentioned tegel- 

 fargade jorden eller leran, brick-colored earth or 

 clay. These hills, hogder, commonly ran from N.N.W. 

 to S.S.E., and sometimes from N. to S., although they 

 also often had some other direction. The sides of these 

 hills were mostly langslutte, long sloping, yet in some 

 places somewhat steeper. All the country was divided into 

 inclosures in the same way as has been described at Little 

 Gaddesden [p. 210 orig.~] and in many other places. These 

 inclosures were surrounded with hedges of the same 

 description. 



Beautiful houses appeared here and there. Husen 

 bygde af sten, murade emellan korsverke af 

 tra. "Brick and Stud" houses, or houses built of brick, 



* There are a large number of Roman bricks built into the east-end of Great 

 Gaddesden Church. The area of G. Gaddesden par. is 4, 149' 29 acres, and 

 that of L. G.par. only 925-497 acres. [J. L.] 



