LITTLE GADDESDEN. 29I 



Tattemel, after which the mine or stone-pit, grufvan 

 eller Sten-brottet, likewise got its [T. I. p. 287] 

 name. 



In some places these chalk hills were long-sloping, in 

 other places steeper. In some places the ploughed fields 

 were on the top of all, where the chalk seems white 

 enough, yet not quite so white as chalk, doubtless because 

 it has from time to time been mixed with all sorts of 

 different manures which have been carried on to the 

 fields. Here there were ploughed fields in many places 

 on the top of these chalk hills, when just under the same, 

 many fathoms into the hill there were large ' drifts ' or 

 ' adits,' ganger, where they hewed and dug up this 

 stone. 



When the hill was observed, on a side where it was 

 steep and all the grass sward was off, so that the clear 

 white chalk showed itself to the open day, it then lay 

 mostly in this order : 



Ft. 



On the top was the grass sward, gras-skarpan, 

 with the soil, svartmyllen, immediately under it 

 about 1 foot thick, or sometimes a little less 1 o 



After that the ordinary chalk came on, which 

 however was blended with the harder kind of chalk 

 which is here called Hurlok, and is so hard that 

 one cannot write with it. The deeper one gets 

 the more he meets with this Hurlok, and less and 

 less of ordinary loose chalk, till after 3 or 4 fathoms 

 perpendicular depth there is nothing else than bare 

 Hurlok 24 o 



Among the chalk and Hurlok, flints next to never 



appear, so that flint is here very rare. When one comes 



still farther down, this Hurlok begins to be mingled with 



Freestone, when the Hurlok, as one gets deeper, diminishes 



more and more, while the Freestone on the other hand 



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