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fan's, or the length, was 10 or n inches. At the bottom 

 and round the edge it was shod with iron. 



Korgarna, the baskets which the small pieces of 

 chalk were cast into, and in which they carried the chalk 

 to the limekilns, were made of willow boughs or shoots, 

 in shape like a large Goblet, or Beaker, Pocal eller 

 Bagare. Their height was 13 inches, the diameter at 

 the base rather over 6 inches, the diameter at the top 15 

 to 16 inches. 



After they had filled the baskets, of which there was 

 here a very large number, they were carried by women 

 to the limekilns, where there was a carl who received the 

 basket, cast or tipped the bits of chalk out of it over or 

 on to the limekiln, yet in such a manner that he slung 

 them with such direction that they did not come to lie on 

 each other, but were spread evenly about beside each 

 other. 



The limekiln was built of brick. When it was empty, 

 and one looked down into it from above, it was in shape 

 like a beaker [T. II. p. 81] or goblet, as round as if it 

 had been drawn with a pair of compasses, but narrow at 

 the bottom and widening upwards. The internal diameter 

 of the kiln at the base or bottom was 66 to 72 inches, 

 but at the top at the surface of the ground the diameter 

 was 13 feet, some a little more. The perpendicular 

 height inside from the bottom to the highest rim, 22 feet 

 6 inches. Down at the bottom the kiln was externally 

 built perpendicular for a height of 6 or 7 feet, above 

 which level its shape afterwards on all sides looked like a 

 parasol. They had there laid horizontally on the top of 

 the perpendicular wall, beams, or balks, on which they 

 had set other smaller balks, which all sloped outwards 

 like a parasol. Immediately within the balks were laid 

 large lumps of chalk, and immediately inside these the 

 brick wall of the limekiln, which leant against and was 



