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consisted of the reddish-yellow earth, there occurred plats, 

 platter, of a totally different colour, viz : almost as 

 black as pitch. Such a spot might be about 6 feet 

 diameter. The carl who accompanied us, told us that 

 they call these spots land springs, that they are some- 

 times very wet and boggy, sura ; if they dig quite deep 

 down in such a place, no other colour is met with than 

 this black, which is, as it were, a pipe or vein of quite 

 differently coloured earth among the other. May not a 

 long continued pollution, syrande, of the water have 

 produced this colour ? May it not be that there is 

 under the chalk formation a black earth, and that a 

 water-vein or pipe ascends from it up to the day,* or 

 may some mineral cause this ? 



[T. I. p. 278.] Skillnad pa hvete-broddens 

 gronska och langd. 



Difference in the greenness and length of wheat stalks. 



It is well known that here in England they do not 

 sow all their wheat at one time, but some earlier, some 

 later. Some in September, other in October, November, 

 December, January, February, &c. Therefore the sprouts 

 must also be different from one another. We saw to-day 

 some of all sorts. Some was quite green, long, thick, 

 and very beautiful, others less and less, according to 

 the time it had been sown, so that some was only just 

 coming up. 



Skada af Teg-skifte. Evils of the common fields. 



To-day we had manifold proofs of this, what harm 

 and hindrance it is for a farmer to have all his property 

 in teg-skifte, common fields, with his neighbours, and on 

 the other hand what an advantage to have an isolated 



* No. []■ L.] 



