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reasons we may conclude : (i) That the brick kiln, Tegel- 

 branneri, in former times seems to have been little 

 known, or at least not specially used in this district. 

 (2) That the use of Glass, Glasbruken, also in those 

 times was not very great. 



On the south side of another Church there have for- 

 merly been three large doors side by side ; but they were 

 afterwards built up with flints, and made only into small 

 windows. 



Some of these old churches now stood deep down in 

 the earth so that their floor was much deeper down than 

 the outer surface of the Churchyard — a sign of their great 

 age. Thus, either the Church has sunk, or the earth in 

 the Churchyard has been raised by [T. II. p. 48] the 

 corpses and coffins buried there, with other earth that 

 had been carried there, or all these causes together. 



I also noticed that in most places in this district, and 

 also in Essex, they used the churchyards where they 

 buried their dead as pastures for horses, donkeys, or 

 pigs, but especially for horses. In some places the 

 churchyard, Kyrkogarden, was used also as a hay- 

 field or meadow, so that they mowed the grass before 

 the cattle were driven in thither. 



Rochester is a beautiful town, tolerably large, and very 

 old, lying on both sides of the river Medway* about 27 

 English miles from London. Here about are several 

 hills, and part of the town also lies upon them, but still 

 it is mostly down in the valleys by the river side. The 

 houses are mostly of brick, some of them quite beautiful. 

 There are several churches here, some of antique archi- 

 tecture, gammal modig byggnad. Over the river 



* On both sides of the river. Strood occupies the left bank opposite 

 Rochester. [J. L.] 



