29O KALM'S ENGLAND. 



Snackor uti ymnoghet. Abundance of Snails. 



We went through an inclosure, tappa, where was a 

 little wood of leaf-trees. In it there lay on the ground 

 under the trees a very large number of snails. 



Breda aker-renar vid hackar och hvar-fore. 



Broad acre-reins by the hedges, and why. 



In nearly all small inclosures and tofts, tappor, of 

 arable in this district at Little Gaddesden, as well as in 

 other places, the ' reins,' renarna, by the hedges were 

 commonly of considerable breadth — 12 feet wide or more. 

 I asked the reason of this. The answer was that, as in 

 all these places there is very little meadow-land, ang, they 

 carefully cultivated the reins to increase their supply of 

 hay. Besides that, it is not convenient to have the 

 ploughed fields too near to the hedges, for as the trees 

 of which the hedges consist, run out into the soil of the 

 ploughed portion, so no crop can grow near the hedge, 

 because the roots of the trees then draw all the nourish- 

 ment out of the soil, for which reason it is also found 

 that the seed which is sown too near the hedge, as it 

 were, dwindles away and dies out. 



Beskrifning pa Tatternels* Stengrufva. 



Description of the Totternhoe stone-mine [called the "Quarry- 

 pit," 1886.] 



We went afterwards to the place where the white 

 stone is hewn, which is here called Freestone, and of which 

 churches and other houses, &c, are built. The place 

 where it is taken out is one of the highest chalk hills in 

 this district, situated in Bedfordshire, just 6 miles north 

 of Little Gaddesden. The nearest village to it is called 



* Tatternel. Still so called (1886), though spelt Totternhoe. [J. L.] 



