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of a half line=^i inch ; but when it is broken one gets to 

 see that it consists mostly of bare flint. They are 

 generally spherical, klotrunda, but sometimes slightly 

 oblong, sometimes they are quite solid and bare flint, 

 but sometimes hollow, when in the centre there lies a 

 little chalk, either attached to the flint, or loose, so that 

 when it is shaken, the chalk is heard striking against the 

 sides within. From such internal space there is no hole 

 or passage to the outer periphery, but the flint is solid 

 round about the hollow space within. These are as 

 small as swallows' eggs or bullets, and also as large as 

 cannon balls. 



In some chalk pits the men used to sit and flake the 

 flints there gathered into small pieces to sell to travellers 

 and others to strike fire with. 



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[T. II. p. 77. J Some old chalk pits are now left 

 desert, and stand full-grown with all kinds of trees and 

 weeds. Among the trees are particularly Privets, 

 Viburnum, Guelder-Rose or Wayfaring tree, Thorn- 

 bushes, Cornus fcem. [Cornus sanguinea, Cornel'] in very 

 great abundance. 



[Omit 4 lines.] 



When the sun shines, while one remains in a chalk- 

 pit, it costs the eyes a good deal to look at the white 

 chalk. 



Rabbits, Caniner, had their holes and dwellings in 

 several places in the loose fallen earth and chalk, where 

 in the evenings they are seen in great numbers. 



Tattingar. Sparrows had their nests in the excavated 

 caves. 



In one of the chalk-pits was laid out a beautiful 

 orchard full of different fruit trees, together with all 

 kinds of kitchen garden plants and vegetables. 



In the chalk-pits near Rochester which lay i^ Swedish 



