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were sown at different times, whence it happened that 

 when some plots exhibited ripe beans, in other places 

 they were just beginning to strike out into flowers. The 

 principal reason why there are so many beans sown here 

 is that they feed horses and pigs with them in the 

 winter. 



The i±- July, 1748. 



Svartmyllans tjocklek. Thickness of the soil. 



Near one of the chalk-pits, krit-groparna, was an 

 orchard, tragard, which consisted partly of [T. II. p. 18] 

 cherries and partly of Walnut-trees. Here, on one side 

 of the Chalk-pit, they had taken away all the soil or 

 vegetable-earth svartmyllan eller matjorden, which 

 lay upon the chalk. This soil, matjord, was not black, 

 but rather more of a flesh-colour. The thickness of the 

 soil svart-myllan eller matjorden, was here mostly 

 21 inches, in some places 27 inches, in other places 

 18 inches and thereabout. The upper surface of the 

 chalk was however, not horizontal, but went more like 

 waves. 



At gora Vin af Russin. To make Wine of Raisins. 



My landlady where I had my quarters here in 

 Gravesend, had Wine which she herself had made from 

 Raisins, which was so good that those who wish to be 

 thought to be judges of wines had difficulty in distin- 

 guishing it from Madeira Wine. 



The Receipt was given me, how it is made, which 

 was thus : — 



To 100 lbs. of Smyrna Raisins are added 45 to 50 

 pints of water, which is afterwards stirred twice a day, 

 for a period of fourteen or sixteen days. 



Thereupon, the raisins are well pressed, and the Wine, 



