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hills appeared. They do not avoid any earth which is 

 dry. In Essex they had their abode under the soil, 

 Svartmyllan, even so in Hertfordshire ; but then I 

 also saw here in Little Gaddesden that they cast up 

 their hills in bare chalk in a ploughed field on a chalk 

 hillside. They are commonly caught here with a 

 particular kind of trap, fallor, which is set out for them 

 in their hole. The farm servants frequently amuse them- 

 selves by setting these traps, giller, for them, because 

 the farmers, or their employers, pay them a certain 

 price when they deliver to them so and so many moles, 

 sa OCh sa manga Mullvadar, at a time. Therefore 

 they collect them diligently, and hang them up in 

 bundles, till they can reach the [T. I. p. 217] desired 

 quantity, when they show the same to their master and 

 get the promised reward. Farther on, these mole-traps 

 shall be described and illustrated. 



[This promise was never fulfilled]. 



Aker-renar. 'Acre-reins,' Balks, were found in 

 some arable fields, but very seldom. The breadth ot 

 them was a Swedish ell, two English feet. These were 

 only on the larger [open] fields, and served as boundaries 

 between the farmers' strips, tegar. 



Akrarna. The arable fields were almost everywhere 

 divided into small inclosures, tappor, always with living 

 hedges around them instead offences, gardesgard; but 

 where the hedges were cut down, a dead-fence, or 

 gardesgard, was set up till a new hedge grew up. 

 Commonly, nearly all these inclosures were quadrilateral, 

 only tljey sometimes resembled squares, quadrater, 

 sometimes oblongs ; yet they had also sometimes some 

 other figure, as, one somewhat circular, trapeziform, &c, 

 but these were, neverthelesss, scarce enough. 



Angarna och beteshagarna. The meadows and 



