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Hence it happened to a certain extent that the grass 

 grew between the cattle's feet ! 



In every pasture was commonly a little pond with 

 sloping sides or banks, on one side of the field, that the 

 cattle might get their water : because the banks of the 

 dikes were designedly made so steep that they could not 

 get at the water to drink therefrom. 



On the meadows there is not the least sign of moss 

 found, because the thick and luxuriant grass prevents such. 



[T. II. p. 14.] In most places the meadows were 

 smooth and flat without any hillocks, tuf va, but in some 

 places, especially higher up against the ploughed fields, 

 were hillock, tufvor, enough, but small. In one and all 

 of them which we dug asunder, was found a multitude of 

 small yellow ants, myror. In several places where they 

 had newly and to-day mown hay, we found loose mould 

 in small hillocks, newly, and probably only this week 

 constructed, and resembling a mole-hill, Hmllvadshog, 

 but when this mould was scattered, it was found full of 

 the before-named ants. Thus have they heaved up these 

 hillocks, tufvor. But we also had the opportunity of 

 discovering another cause for these hillocks in this 

 situation, which was Juncus acutus panicula sparsa, C. B. 

 [J. Tenax Banks. MS.] This grew in many places in 

 very great abundance, and had the peculiarity of always 

 growing in tufts or tussocks, tufvor. It is not destroyed 

 by any animal on account of its hardness and roughness 

 or bristling exterior ; it takes hold of dust, damb, straw, 

 stra, and anything that is driven by the wind. Directly 

 this begins to grow on the smoothest ground it makes it 

 in a few years full of hillocks, tufvor. 



Godslens formerande. A mode of increasing the 

 quantity of manure. 



The soil, which is dug up when the before-named dikes 



