220 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



ground, and when they have thus got the tree down they 

 do not incur the cost of carrying the tree home whole, as 

 it had fallen, but they saw it into smaller pieces on the 

 spot where it grew, dig there a pit 6 feet deep, or of the 

 shape which has just been described, where they saw the 

 tree to pieces, or to boards, or whatever they wish. 



Sniglar. Snails can often cause great damage on 

 arable fields and meadows. Mr. Ellis showed me yester- 

 day a letter which he had received from a learned and 

 experienced gentleman, who has a great taste for Rural 

 Economy, in which letter this gentleman relates that 

 when he succeeded to his estate after his father's death, 

 there was found on a brick wall, sten-vall, on his estate 

 a dreadful lot of snails. 



In the morning before sunrise they were out on the 

 grass and ploughed fields, where they did great damage. 

 On one occasion he remarked that when the swine were 

 turned out in the morning, and came to pass close to this 

 wall, they left all other food and began only to seek for 

 and eat these snails. From this, he concluded to send 

 out boys in the morning, while the dew still lay heavily 

 on the ground [T. I. p. 222], and collect them in baskets, 

 and attempt to give them to the swine at home, when he 

 had the pleasure of seeing how greedily the pigs ate them 

 as if they had been their choicest food. He did not 

 afterwards regret that he caused them to be collected 

 every day, and fed the swine with them, for they not only 

 became astonishingly fat, so that the hair fell off them, but 

 when a pig, gris, which was fed on the snails, was killed, 

 his flesh was found to be of the best possible flavour. 



Tegel-Sten. Brick brayed into fine dust or meal is 

 used here to scour or polish all kinds of iron or brass 

 implements, &c, in a household, such as candlesticks, 

 ljus-stakar, snuffers, ljus-saxar, knife-handles, knif- 

 skaft, tongs, eld tanger, &c. Some of this dust was 



