228 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



the stack. Upon these pillars the bottom was then laid. 

 On some posts there was no such " resting-stone " on the 

 top, but the upper part of the pillar was for the height 

 of one foot covered on all sides with a thin polished 

 sheet of brass, which also prevented the mice from climb- 

 ing up, because they could not possibly get a foothold on 

 this polished brass. These ricks had beyond that the 

 advantage, that the wind got to play under them. On 

 the top they were well thatched with straw. 



Vattu-Konst, at draga up vatten med. 



Hydraulic machine to draw up the water with. 

 The above-mentioned duke's house was situated on 

 one of the chalk ridges of this place, where there was no 

 spring to get good water out of. Therefore they had caused 

 a well, en brunn, to be dug down through the chalk ridge 

 to a depth of very many fathoms [275 feet.J To get up 

 the water out of the same, a large wheel was built, which 

 had a thick axletree, around which there went a long rope, 

 which had a large bucket, balja, fastened to each end, 

 yet in [T. I. p. 230] this way, that when the one pail 

 went up with the water, the other went empty down. 

 Inside the great wheel a horse was led, who by his walk' 

 ing inside the wheel drove it round, and thus the buckets 

 were lifted up and down. The water was poured out of 

 the bucket into great troughs, hoar, made of lead, from 

 which it was afterwards led through leaden pipes and 

 gutters to the places where it was wanted. 



* This is a very old well. It appears in an Inquisition made 20th 

 October, 17 Eliz. [1575], before Sir Edmund Asshefyld and Richard Young, 

 supervisors of Her Majesty's possessions. 



"Item. — Presentant insuper juratores. . . . Domus vocata the Well- 

 House, cum appendicibus. Valet vendi vij^." Todd's Bonhommes, p. 63. 

 Lond. 1823, Fol. 



" When the Earl of Bridgewater came into possession of the estate 

 [1803] . . . there were remaining . . . the Engine House, which 

 covered a well 275 feet deep." ib. p. 70. fj. L.] 



