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Article XXXV. 



On Planting Wajle Grounds. 



[From a Norfolk Gentleman, a Vifitor at Bath.) 



Gentlemen, 



S I have made planting a favourite amufe* 



ment, I take the freedom of fubmitting a 

 few thoughts thereon to your confideration. 



My refidence is in Norfolk, a county in which 

 fixty years fince there were vaft tracts of unculti- 

 vated, and, as was then thought, barren land. 

 The weflern parts of it abounded with fands of fo 

 light a texture, that they were carried about by 

 every wind; and in many places the fands were 

 fo loofe that no grafs could grow upon them. 



Art and induftry, however, have now fo al- 

 tered the face of this once Arabian defert, that it 

 wears 1 very different appearance. Mod of thefe 

 tracts arc either planted, or rendered very good 

 corn-land, or fheep-walks. 



I fee by your lad volume you have already been 

 informed by Mr. Beevor, and other Gentlemen, 

 of the progrefs and effects of marling, and of their 



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