286 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



kalla, as a great rarity in these districts. It took its 

 rise in the middle of a large arable field, where it, with its 

 beck, formed a valley 60 or 70 feet below the surface of 

 the fields. In this deep dale the water streamed from 

 under the earth in several places just as if small becks 

 had come rushing out, and formed at once a tolerably 

 large beck. The banks of the spring-beck, Kall-baeks- 

 backarna, consisted entirely of chalk, although they 

 were now mostly overgrown with grass. 



Watercress. Down in the beck grew an abundance of 

 Nasturtium aquaticum supinum* C.B. A common com- 

 plaint was that high-lying districts had great want of 

 water. 



Allehanda slags Halm til godsel. 

 A II kinds of straw for manure. 



At all the farms which we passed by to-day, we saw all 

 kinds of straw laid out in the farm-yards, to be changed 

 into manure in the way which has been described in 

 detail above [p. 251, orig.]. 



Sades-stackar pa palar eller stalpar. 



Richs on poles or pillars. 



At Edgeborough,f Eaton, J and all the villages and farms 

 we passed by to-day we saw a number of ricks of wheat, 

 barley, oats, pease [T. I. p. 283], and beans, which there 

 stood on pillars, stalpar, hewn out of the white so-called 

 Freestone. The height of the pillars was 2 feet 6 inches to 

 3 feet. Their shape, and the build of the stack in other 

 respects the same exactly as has been described above 

 [p. 265, orig. 267 above~\. But, besides these kinds of 



* Nasturtium Officinale. Watercress is still largely cultivated at all 

 the chalk springs, of which there are six within a mile, and eight within the, 

 two miles between Coombe Hole and Well Head inclusive. []. L.] 



I Still so called (1886), though spelt Eddlesborou^h. [J. L.] 



X Eaton Bray. [J. L.] 



