332 KALMS ENGLAND. 



[T. I. p. 329.] Harfvarnas beskrifning, som har 



brukas. 



Description of the harrows which are used, here. 



The harrows in use here are made in the same way 

 as with us in Sweden. Their length is commonly 4 feet 

 3 inches, breadth 3 feet 2 inches. Some consisted of 

 five bars, trail, and some of four, with always five tines, 

 tinnar, in each bar, tra. The distance between the 

 tines was commonly 9 inches, the length of the tines 6 

 or 7 inches. The breadth of each of their sides f inch. 

 They were not fastened, fast haftade, as is commonly 

 done with us by being thrust in from below, and then 

 clinched on the top, nadas ofvantil, when the part 

 which is thrust into the bar is narrower than that below, 

 but they were here thrust through from above, when the 

 upper end of them was beaten thin, bent ad angulum 

 rectum, with a nail-hole in the same crookt and thin 

 beaten part of the iron, through which a nail was knocked 

 down into the harrow-bar, harf-traden, which held 

 the tine, pinnan, fast. But as the hole for the tine or 

 harrow-tine, harf-pinnan, was as large as the thickness 

 of the tine, the tine was often shot up, and became loose, 

 in this flint-full earth. 



Jordens tjocklek somligstads pa kritan. 



The thickness of the soil in some places on the chalk. 



In a thick wood of leaf-trees was a pit, where they had 

 taken chalk, in which we measured the thickness of the 

 soil, which we found to be 4 feet 3 inches. This earth 

 which lay upon the chalk was of the same brick-coloured 

 kind as is found everywhere about here. 



Such was the thickness at this place, but in other 

 places it was sometimes more, sometimes less. 



