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and will in autumn be sown with wheat, but still they 

 had not begun to plough them up, but they were in the 

 same state as when the beans were cut. 



Akrar och auuau jordmon, etc. 



Arable fields, and another soil, etc. 



We afterwards crossed over the afore-named beck on 

 the other side of which arable fields occurred which 

 were of an entirely different colour from those we have 

 just described, although they were only separated from 

 the others by a little beck ; for the soil here was white 

 no more, but of a dark grey colour*, af en morkaktig 

 farg, and had flint stones enough. It seems also not to 

 be so stiff as the white earth, but more loose, and 

 resembled mylla mould. On account of their low 

 situation, it was similarly laid out in broad ridge lands 

 or ryggs, still the ryggs here were not quite so high 

 as the former ones, or those on the other side of the 

 beck, which were exactly like the ploughed fields of 

 Westmanland ; but these were more like our fields in 

 Nerike, where the ridges are not so high. It was wonder- 

 ful that a little beck of 2 or 3 feet wide should make so 

 great a difference, especially as the same beck was not 

 over 2 feet deeper than [T. I. p. 271] the water furrows 

 themselves in the fields on both sides. The reason 

 might be this. The beck runs from west to east. On 

 the south side lie high chalk hills of the hard kind of 

 chalk, which slope gradually towards the beck. On the 

 north side of the same beck there lie for 2 or 3 miles 

 small hills of another, or a little darker earth,f which 

 also slope towards the beck, but their slope is so slight, 



* The Gault. [J. L.] t The Gault. [J. L.] 



