LITTLE GADDESDEN. 305 



the common.* At the same time all the kiln-mouths are 

 also stopped, so that no moisture may draw in. There- 

 upon the bricks are first taken out and afterwards [T. I. 

 p. 302] the chalk, which chalk is now, after burning, 

 much lighter than before. It is then slaked with water, 

 like another unslaked lime, when it falls asunder into a 

 fine white meal or powder, which is the lime with which 

 they here build houses, manure arable fields and meadows, 

 etc. 



Far-bete, som ar godt. Sheep-pasture which is good. 



I asked Mr. Ellis what the nature and quality of the 

 sheep-pastures was here in England in the Provinces, 

 where they had the best sheep and the choicest wool. He 

 answered, all the sheep pastures in the said Provinces 

 consist of bare high chalk hills or escarpments, krit- 

 barg eller backar, yet differing from these districts 

 here in Hertfordshire, in that there are no hedges, but all 

 common land and open plains. He said further that 

 the sheep will not thrive so well in this district, where 

 there are too many inclosures surrounded with living 

 hedges, although the pasture itself is good enough ; but 

 least of all will they flourish on wet places and Vale lands 

 where they always fare ill. He added that the place 

 the sheep should thrive best upon, ought to be dry hills, 

 where the wind has free access on all sides, and is not 

 hindered by hedges, &c. There should be no sumpy 

 places. The higher the place lies up in the air the 

 better for the sheep. If the meadows lie low, but consist 

 of salt-grass, the sheep also thrive tolerably well, although 

 they do not make such fine wool. 



* Pa faltet. Ivinghoe Common. See T. I. pp. 197-8 and p. 256 orig. 



and pp. 197 and 256 above. [J. L.] 



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