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which all consisted of dug-up roots of beech, oak, ash, 

 &c, which were now mostly cut up to be used at the 

 house for fuel' instead of other wood, ved. Thus they 

 knew in this district how to make use of every bit of a 

 tree, and to be careful of the wood. 



[T. I. p. 342.] Hopgyttrade flintstenar. 

 Conglomerated flint-pebbles. Puddingstone. 

 For the most part, at all the farmhouses there were 

 placed here and there against the corners tolerably large 

 stones, such as one or two men might carry, which 

 stones were only a conglomeration of quite small round, 

 trinda, so-called Pebblestones, which are all a kind of small 

 round smooth flint-stones. They had here been bound 

 together by some fine clay, lera, which had afterwards 

 become as hard as flint. I do not know where they had 

 taken them from, for they did not occur on the open plain. 

 In London I afterwards got to see small pieces of it, which 

 were polished and made into the lids of snuff-boxes, when 

 they looked like the most beautiful agates, and exhibited 

 a variety of colours. 



Hurudant vatten Har brukas til kokning, etc. 

 What kind of water is here used for cooking, etc. 



I have said before [p. 281 orig.~] that a spring or 

 any running water is very seldom found on the Chalk- 

 hills. Therefore those who live there are obliged to 

 dig large and deep ponds, dammar, in which the rain 

 water can collect, and clear itself, sila sig tilhopa. 

 In colour this pond-water exactly resembled such white 

 and thick water, as in Sweden usually stands in clay-pits, 

 lergropar, only that this, here in England, inclined a 

 little to yellow, which was due* to the chalk soil, krit- 

 grunden, which it stood upon. Folk avail themselves 



* This yellow tint is caused by hydrated peroxide of iron. [J. L.] 



