388 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



perpendicular. [T. II. p. 23.J The bank had slipped 

 down, or been under-eaten by the water in the river, so 

 that I could see this quite clearly in many trees. 



[T. II. p. 31.] The -M- Julii, 1748. 

 Et satt at rida. A way of riding. 

 In England they are much in the habit of practising 

 a way of riding which is most strange, and not in use 

 among us in Sweden. It is that two persons, the one 

 a man and the other a woman, both sit on one and the 

 same horse. The carl sits in front, guides and governs 

 the horse in the usual way ; but the lady [T. II. p. 32], 

 or woman, sits behind him in the same way as women 

 generally sit on horseback, viz., sideways. It is here 

 common to see them so come riding, not only in small 

 places and out in the country, but even in the middle of 

 London ; but especially in the summer time when they 

 ride out of town for recreation. 



The 44 July. 



Hd-bargningen, Hd-stackar. Hay making, Hay 

 stacks. 



The meadows were now in most places mown, but in 

 some places they remained still to mow. In the fields 

 the hay was treated in the same way as has been before 

 named in this description of my travels, (T. I. p. 438). 

 When it was quite dry it was set in cocks, valmar, 6 foot 

 high, and down on the ground there were spread cocks 

 from which it was afterwards carried to the place where 

 the stacks were to be made. If the fields lay near the 

 farm, the hay was carried home and stacked, but if they 

 lay any considerable distance from the farm, the stack 

 was made in the field. In the high-lying places the hay 

 consisted mostly of Sain Foin, but in low places, of kinds 

 of grass. 



