374 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



Essex is said to be a good deal better and nicer-flavoured 

 than that which is made in Kent, at least better than 

 that which is to be had around Gravesend. 



Krita til husvaggar. Chalk in house walls. 



At a farm, en by, which lies not far from one of the 

 chalk pits, we saw an outhouse whose walls were entirely 

 [T. II. p. 9] built of chalk, which they had cut into 

 quadrangular pieces. It was only at the corners of the 

 house, and at the doors and the window openings that 

 they had built with brick. One and another of these 

 chalk bricks, Kritstenar, if I may so call them, was 

 partly injured by the air, and was beginning to fall to 

 pieces ; but most of them were flat 'and uninjured. The 

 house seemed to have stood from 8 to 12 years. 



Hedera. Ivy. At several Farms Hedera arborea, C.B. 

 [H. Helix] grew close against the walls, up which it 

 clambered, and often entirely covered long walls, which, 

 in consequence, looked very pretty. In like manner it 

 clad in many places walls around churches, houses, and 

 gardens. The walls of the before mentioned old church 

 [Denton Church] were for a great part overdrawn with ivy. 



Vinranckor. Vines. 



At very many houses in Gravesend, and at a great 

 many of the Farmers' and other houses, rich as well as 

 poor, round about the country, they had planted vines on 

 the sides of the houses and cottages which looked 

 towanis the south, mot solen,* and whose walls at this 

 time o) the year were almost covered with them. 



Kersbarstran. Cherry trees. 

 Kent is the district that has the name for this, that 



* " Turn not your vineyard to the setting sun." Georgics II., 298, orig. 

 331, Tr, Mason, 1810, 8vo. [J. L.] 



