Herr Bernhoft shewed me a small meadow which he had leased for thirty years, at an annual rent of thirty kreutzers.

In order, however, to transform the land he bought into a meadow, which yields winter fodder for only one cow, it was necessary to expend more than 150 florins, besides much personal labour and pains.

The rate of wages for peasants is very high when compared with the limited wants of these people: they receive thirty or forty kreutzers per diem, and during the hay-harvest as much as a florin.
For a long distance round the town the ground consists of stones, turf, and swamps.

The latter are mostly covered with hundreds upon hundreds of great and small mounds of firm ground.

By jumping from one of these mounds to the next, the entire swamp may be crossed, not only without danger, but dry-footed.
In spite of all this, one of these swamps put me in a position of much difficulty and embarrassment during one of my solitary excursions.