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walled up between crossbeams of wood, which went both 

 ad angulos rectos et acutos. Some houses were roofed, 

 tackte, with flat tiles, but most with straw in the way 

 which has been described above at several places here 

 in Hertfordshire. Some [T. I. p. 341.] outhouses had 

 walls of oak boards. Around the farms, all sorts of fruit 

 trees were planted, such as apple-tree, pear-tree, cherry- 

 tree, walnut-tree, &c, of different kinds, while in some 

 places some of them stood in the hedges round the 

 enclosures, so that the houses here were mostly situated 

 in orchards of fruit trees, 16f-lundar af frukt tran. 

 On the hill-sides and hills there lay either arable fields, 

 meadows, or pastures. In a word, the country here 

 everywhere resembled a charming and well-arranged 

 garden. 



Harvar at rifva bart massan pa angar med, &c. 



Harrows to tear away mosses from meadows with, &c. 



On a gentleman's estate, there lay a couple of such 

 Fall-grindar, or hurdles, as have been described [on 

 p. 262 orig.~\, between whose tran och spolar, staves 

 and rods, on the under side were inserted and interwoven 

 a number of slan-gristar, sloe-twigs, so that they were 

 held quite fast. With these harrows thus arranged they 

 drove along the moss-grown meadows, when the thorns 

 and the sharp twigs of the sloe tore up the moss in the 

 field and swept it away with them. In like manner 

 these harrows were used for this, that when the manure 

 was spread over the grass-sward of the meadows they 

 drove these harrows over the fields, by which means the 

 dung and earth were torn asunder and reduced to pieces 

 by the sloe-branches. 



Tra rotter til bransle. Tree roots as fuel. 



On the same estate there lay several heaps 12 feet 

 high and 5 or 6 fathoms long and wide at the base, 



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