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beautiful and green with luxuriant shoots, on to which 

 flocks of sheep, Fare-hopar, were always driven to 

 pasture there. As this was a Vale Land, or land con- 

 sisting of large open fields in the vale, so there were not 

 here used many inclosures bounded by living hedges, but 

 mostly common fields, or lands, which lay in teg-skifte, 

 lit. exchangeable slips, or ' lands,' for which reason, also, 

 we saw here no inclosures sown with turnips or grass 

 seed as food for sheep. 



Korn saddes. Barley was being sown. 



The folk were this day occupied everywhere in the 

 fields in sowing barley, which was done on smooth or 

 flat ploughed land, when it was sown out in the sama 

 way as with us in Sweden, and was harrowed down. 



Akrarnas belagenhet. 



On the north side of Eaton [Bray] there were very 

 large arable fields which lay* between the chalk hills in 

 the vale, dalar, in sufficiently low-lying and wet places. 

 They much resembled the fields, akrarna, in Upland, 

 in this, that these were large, and lay quite flat and not 

 on hills. 



Since they lay so low and were so very wet, they 

 were all laid out in Ridge A ere lands, or in the Westmanland 

 manner. They differed only from them in this respect, 

 that along the middle of the highest part of each ridge 

 there went a little water-furrow 6 to 9 inches deep, and 

 the same breadth on the top. In the water-furrows 

 between the ridges there now stood a large quantity of 

 water. No other ditches were seen. Wheat was sown 

 on a part of these fields, and [T. I. p. 286] they were 

 now very busy sowing barley on the other. 



* On the Gault. [J. L.] 



