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which here grew in multitudes on all pastures and grass 

 ground, and was now in full flower, drew together its 

 petals when the air was cold, or when it was like rain or 

 bad weather. A great many flowers of Syngenesia or 

 floribus compositis [Composite^] had this quality. 



Kes-ballar har och dar pa akrar. 



Balls of iron-pyrites here and there on the fields. 



I have before (p. 291, orig. 295 above) given a description 

 of the Kes-ballar which lay embedded in the Freestone 

 at Tatternel, and were found in abundance in the same 

 stone mine. In our walks hither and thither in the fields 

 and in other places in this district we often found these 

 Kes-ballar, Crows' gold, Iron pyrites, either in pits where 

 they had dug up the chalk to carry vn to the fields for 

 manure, or also out on the ploughed lands, in many 

 places round Edgeborough, as well as here round Little 

 Gaddesden. Those which are found on the fields have 

 doubtless been carried there with the chalk from the 

 chalk pits. When these had lain for a time on the fields, 

 the air, rain, and sun had considerably altered their 

 colour and appearance. They exactly resembled a piece 

 of the iron ore which is dug up in bogs and morasses, 

 and were of the same irony rust and ochre colour. The 

 interior looked very much like Ochra, although it was 

 harder, but the surface itself retained its radiated sul- 

 phurous colour and structure. They had still their former 

 considerable weight. [As these are found here in all chalk 

 hills among the ordinary chalk [T. I. p. 309] so I ask, 

 " May not the bottom of all chalk hills, although it be 

 low down, consist of Freestone ? May not the chalk and 

 Freestone differ, if only in the degree of hardness or 

 development, according as they lie nearer the surface or 

 deeper down ? May not this which is now Freestone, in 



