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[T. I. p. 481] and then on the top the hay or Sain Foin, 

 which was thereby prevented from taking harm from the 

 moisture from the ground. 



Near the chalk-pits several outhouse walls and garden 

 walls were built entirely of flints, which were nearly 

 always so placed in the wall, that after a large flint had 

 been struck in half, the perfectly black and even, or 

 fractured face was turned outwards ; but the round and 

 white side, which before was the outer surface of the 

 stone was set inwards in the wall. In many places flints 

 were carried out on to the roads for their repair. 



The $rd July, 1748. 

 Akrar. Ploughed Fields. 



The whole country around Gravesend was like a chain 

 of hills on whose sides the ploughed fields lay. 



They were middling large enclosures, tappor, mostly 

 surrounded with a hawthorn hedge, or also sometimes 

 with a fence of wattled twigs or small branches. I did 

 not notice any ditches, diken, in the arable fields, and 

 what is more, no water-furrows, vattU-farar. The 

 reasons may be that there are here no winters which 

 cause the water to accumulate, the sloping position of 

 the fields, and the soil, jordmon, which does not seem 

 to retain the water long. 



Wheat, Hvete ; Barley, Korn ; Oats, Hafre ; Peas, 

 Arter ; and Tares, Vicise, were the plants which we 

 found sown on those ploughed fields, which were not 

 lying fallow, som ej lago i trade. 



The soil was a clay of a very pale brick-colour blended 

 with a fine sand. Some pieces of flint lay here and there ; 

 no other stones were found either on the ploughed fields, 

 or in the whole of this district. The soil was so loose 

 that it could be ploughed in the greatest drought, when- 

 ever they wished, without waiting for the moisture of the 



