3°° KALM'S ENGLAND. 



in summer, but is kept quite fresh by this water running 

 below. When he wished, he could always exclude the 

 water from the cellar, if only the hole was closed again, 

 through which it ran in ; when it flowed its course in the 

 beck itself which ran close by the cellar. 



At stiga til hastar fran en trappa. 



To mount horses from a step. 



Everywhere here at the farms in the country and in the 

 small places, there was a little trappa or ' mounting- 

 step,' built 3 feet or 4 feet high, with steps up to the 

 highest part of it, on which the men, but especially the 

 women, went up when they wished to set themselves in 

 the saddle upon the horse. This mounting-step was 

 sometimes built against the wall of the house ; but at 

 times also it stood by itself alone out in the yard or out 

 on the hill. 



Qvarnar. Mills. 



On the tract where we went to-day we saw two or 

 three windmills, built in the same way as is most usual 

 with us in Sweden. We also saw a water-mill at one 

 place,* which differed in nothing from ours more than 

 that here there were quartered a frightful number of 

 large rats, which they called Hanoverian rats. 



Akrars belagenhet, &c. 



On the south side of Edgeborough there were very 

 large fields. They were all laid out in broadland and teg- 

 skifte, but not the smallest acre-rein, aker-ren, or 

 ditch was found on them. These last, however, were 

 not required, because they lay sloping enough. They were 

 now devoted to crops for this summer. We remarked 



* There are now three water-mills at Eddlesborough, and one at 



Tottemhoe. [J. L.] 



