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KALM'S ENGLAND. 



Kyrkor. Churches, the ancient ones mostly of Flints, &c. 

 I have mentioned above (T. I. pp. 479-80), that nearly 

 all the old Churches in this part were built of Flints, 

 as Chadwell in Essex, -Northfleet west of Gravesend, 

 and several others in Kent. To-day also we saw that 

 many Churches in Rochester were for the most part built 

 [T. II. p. 47] of bare flint, Flinta, only that they used 

 some Portland stone among them. 



We went after- 

 wards from the high 

 road up to a hamlet, 

 til en by, where we 

 saw an old Church 

 which they used as 

 a malthouse,* hollo 

 pa at gora til et 

 malthus. This was 

 similarly almost en- 

 tirely built of Flints, 

 only that the window 

 frames and mullions, 

 fonster karmar 

 och ramar, and the 

 door-posts, dor- 

 tran, were of Port- 

 land stone. The West Front of Ruined Church at 

 windows were quite Iv y Cottage, Shorm, 1887. 

 small. There appeared, truly enough, bricks, tegelstenar, 

 in the walls in one place and another, but it could at 

 the same time be plainly seen, that the wall had there 

 been broken, and that the brickwork was the work of 

 later times. 



* In lane to Shorne. Kalm was the first writer who notices this ruin. 

 The Kentish Traveller, 4th Ed., 1790, has a paiagrapb, p. 116: "On the 



