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of this water, for want of any other, for cooking food, 

 washing dishes, linen, etc., til mats-kokning, karils- 

 twattning, bykning, etc. 



We could never perceive any unpleasantness in con- 

 sequence of the food we ate which was cooked with it. 

 We also saw linen-clothes, floors, &c, become quite as 

 clean and as white with this as with any other water. 

 This was also the cattle's drink, who likewise did well 

 upon it. 



Sades-stackar pa stalpar. Ricks on props. 



We saw the whole way from Little Gaddesden to 

 [T. I. p. 343] Woodford in Essex ricks at the farms 

 partly of round partly of oblong shape ; part of them 

 stood on pillars, part on the bare ground. In a word, 

 exactly the same as have been described [pp. 229 and 

 255 orig.]. Some stood on wooden posts more or less 

 high, surrounded in the middle or at the upper ends 

 either with polished brass or tin, others stood on stone 

 posts, which were of the white freestone, which is got 

 near Tatternel. They were hewn square, and quite 

 smooth on all sides. The height of the pillar was 

 2 feet 6 inches. On the top of the pillar was laid a square 

 flagstone, hall, of the same kind of stone, whose under 

 side was quite smooth and flat, and reached on every 

 side 6 inches beyond the square pillar, stalpen, so that 

 mice and other small injurious animals could not possibly 

 climb up these posts to the stack. On the top these 

 square flagstones were so hewn that they sloped down on 

 all sides, so that the water ran off them at once. The 

 bottom of the stack consisted of small sticks, stange, 

 laid 3 to 6 inches apart. 



On these there were first laid either brackens, 

 Ormbunkar, twigs of sloe, hawthorn, or dry straw, and 

 afterwards the sheaves of the crop, Sades-karfvar. 



