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land, make use of it in many ways : for it is partly used 

 for arable fields, partly for meadows, and partly for 

 pastures. On the fields there are sown, in particular, 

 wheat, oats, and pease [T. I. p. 359] which the owners 

 carry to London and there sell, but the most profit comes 

 from the meadows and pastures ; for as hay in London 

 is very dear, so it is here exceedingly well worth while 

 to look well after the meadows, angarna. By means of 

 the large number of horses and other animals to which 

 they allow freedom to go on their meadows and pas- 

 tures, they make incredible profits, for several people in 

 London send their horses out here to bait, at beta, and 

 pay a certain sum per week for each horse. The same 

 thing is done with butcher-cattle, slagt-boskap, which 

 are pastured on the meadows. Besides this, the farmers 

 themselves buy up a quantity of sheep, calves, and 

 other cattle from different places, which they keep for a 

 time either in their inclosures, or in sheds, i hus, to fatten 

 them, and then sell them to butchers in London. The 

 last system returns most profit in the year to the farmers 

 hereabouts because no kind of provisions has such a 

 large consumption in England as meat. 



Such farmers are called Graziers, for they practise 

 agriculture least, and devote themselves to grass and 

 pastures to fatten cattle and sell them. The country 

 round Woodford is charming. The houses lie on a hill. 

 The hills and dales in the country round form a beautiful 

 view in the distance. On the west and S.W. sides are 

 seen London's high towers, as well as the beautiful build- 

 ings which lie scattered about here and there in the 

 country, with a multitude of arable fields, aker-falt, 

 pleasure gardens and orchards, lust-och tra-gardar. 

 On the east and S.E. sides, the river Thames appears, 

 where are ships going to and from London, to say 

 nothing of a diversity of beautiful villages, vackra 



