44^ KALM'S ENGLAND. 



covers them over, then they have a Chamois leather 

 which they tie over the glass so that it is quite closed, and 

 use it when it is wanted. The large mushrooms are not 

 pickled, but are stewed while fresh. The small ones 

 which were pickled were of the size of flnger's-ends, and 

 consisted of the entire pileus or hat, and the pedunculas 

 or stalk, with the lamella and all, nothing being taken 

 away. They were not washed before they were laid in 

 the pickle, saltlakan, to be boiled. 



[T. II. p. ioi.J The ifli August, 1748. 



At midday came Captain Lawson from London to 

 Gravesend, whither the ship had already gone before on 

 the n July- 



Gravesend is a little spot which lies in a charming 

 place in Kent close to the river Thames, about 22 English 

 miles from London. The houses are for a great part of 

 brick, but some are old and built in a very ugly style. 

 The streets are uneven, irregular, and paved with flints. 

 In the town is a beautiful English Church and a Presby- 

 terian House of Prayer, Bdnekus. Outside the English 

 Church is this inscription : " Hanc sedem incendio 

 lugubri deletam Georgius II., Rex Munificentissimus, 

 Senatus Consilio, instaurandam decrevit," which at 

 once points attention to the conflagration which this 

 little town suffered some years back, when a great part 

 of it was laid in ashes.* 



In and around the town are several kitchen gardens, 

 kryddgardar, whence a large quantity of kitchen 

 garden produce is sent up to London nearly every day, 

 besides what is sold to seafarers, sjofarande; and 

 Gravesend Asparagus is especially famous, as it is 



* 24th August, 1727, destroyed no houses and the Church. Pocock 

 Hist, of Gravesend, 1797. [J. L.] 



