394 KALM'S ENGLAND. 



they used were of different sizes and lengths. In those 

 with [T. II. p. 38] which they cast the hay up on to the 

 stack, the pitchfork, jarngaffeln, itself was 1 foot 

 long and 6 inches between the ' grains ' or ' tines,' * 

 grenarna, fastened to the handle with an iron ring, as 

 on an ice-pick, the shaft two fathoms long, or as long as 

 one wishes. The small forks, to toss the hay on the 

 meadow, were 6 inches long, and 4 inches between the 

 ' games ' or ' tines,' gafllarna,f the length of the shaft 

 at will. The tines or prongs on all these forks were not 

 straight, but slightly curved, Grenarna pa alia dessa 

 gafflar voro ej rake, utan litet krokuta. A figure of 

 such a hayfork, hdgaffel, can be seen in Linnaeus's Shanska, 

 Resa, p.303,fig. b [Stockholm, 1751.8V0.]. When they here 

 made a haystack, there commonly stood a carl who, with 

 one of the before-named pitchforks, jarntjufvor, 

 pitched up the hay. One or two carls received it, and 

 spread it out evenly on the stack, as they found it best. 

 Afterwards there were commonly four lads who did 

 nothing else than constantly trample it. The lower sides, 

 or the lower parts of the stack, were made smooth with 

 a rake, and the hay was also raked off, so that the stack 

 in its lower parts might be so much narrower, and wider 

 upwards. 



The -|-§- July. 



In the morning we walked from Gravesend to 

 Rochester, which lies 7 English miles from the first- 

 named place. 



Utsigten af Landet. The appearance of the 

 country. We had the whole way a variety of ploughed 



-* ' Tine the grain of a fork ' (Bailey, Eng. Die. 1 736), i.e. branch or 

 ■brong. [J. L".J 



j" ' Gaffle, part of a crossbow.' ib. [J. L.J 



