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one or two carls saw it asunder, just as they please. To 

 make the sides even, and the corners square, a ruler 

 or straight-edge and set square are used, brukas lineal 

 OCh vinkel-hake. To finally make all quite plane and 

 smooth, they use an iron scraper or rimer, skaf-eller 

 slat-jarn, with which they scrape or shave, skafva, it flat. 



Down in the mine which went under ground, were set 

 here and there on the walls of the adits fast-stuck shoots 

 of Wild Thyme, Timjan, sweet briar, T6rn-rosor, &c, 

 about which the carls related that if these are set there 

 fresh in the summer time, they will remain there green and 

 as fresh, and smelling as sweet in a couple of months' time. 



Some whom curiosity had driven [T. I. p. 295] down 

 or into this mine had written their names with the date 

 on the walls. 



I asked the carls whether those who continually 

 labour in these mines are affected by any particular ill- 

 ness above others ? They answered that they for the 

 most part get to enjoy good health, and are not aware 

 that they are exposed to more illnesses or cramps than 

 others. It is also very seldom that any stone falls down 

 by itself from the roof into the adits. They remembered 

 only one unlucky accident, which had been timed in 

 such a manner that a carl had been killed by a stone 

 which fell from the roof and crushed him to death. This 

 may doubtless have been the god-forgotten man of 

 whom Mr. Ellis tells in his " Shepherd's Sure Guide," 

 pp. 231-2. 



The carls also said that they had not remarked any 

 sign of approaching weather from this mine. 



When this stone is hewn, sawn, or scraped with an 

 iron, it smells and stinks like a Stink-stein, Orsten. 



The place and entrance to the mine was well on for 20 

 fathoms (120 feet) perpendicular depth below the highest 

 summit of the chalk hill, if not more. 



