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Valt. The Roller. 



On a pasture at Ivinghoe lay a large roller, which was 

 made in this way, that above the roller was as it were a 

 roof, on which stones could be laid when one wished to 

 make the roller heavier, and taken off again when one 

 wished to roll anything which did not require such a great 

 weight. The diameter of the roller or the stock was 18 

 inches. 



Bladen, pa Hedera, &c. Ivy leaves as food for Sheep. 



The leaves of Hedera Arborea, C.B. are said to be 

 gathered here by good economists, hushallare, who 

 give them green to their sheep, which eat them very 

 greedily. The carl who accompanied us related as a fact, 

 that small pills, arter, are made from this tree, which 

 pills are laid in sores to keep them open. 



Beskrifning pa Ivinghoe. Description of Ivinghoe. 



Ivinghoe is a parish or large village, whose inhabitants, 

 for the most part, live by agriculture. Yet there were 

 here also a few shopkeepers, as is usual in all parishes or 

 large villages in England. The houses [T. I. p. 268] or 

 farms are not built all in a row, as in Little Gaddesden, 

 but more in a round form, as in a town. In the middle 

 of the parish there stands a beautiful stone church,* 

 with a tower to it, med torn pa, yet not built in the 

 manner usual in England, viz., cut off at the top, but 

 with a spire, spir-torn, in which was set a timepiece 

 without a hand.f 



* Principally flint with irregular lumps of Freestone (Totternoe Stone). 



[J.L.] 



f There are now two clocks, both with two hands. Such a one-handed 

 clock may still [1886] be seen on one of the west towers of Westminster 

 Abbey. [J. L.] 



