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but that of planting, they are, and muft remain fo s 

 unlefs an expence, greater thai: moft people chufe 

 to be at, be fubmitted to in improving them. 



The firft kind is mere fand. This foil, unlefs 

 there be clay or marie at a few feet depth under ir t 

 (as is the cafe in the Weft part of Norfolk, about 

 Thetford and Brandon) will pay better by being 

 planted with Scotch Firs and Larches than any 

 thing elfej efpecially, if, in making the planta- 

 tions, a little clay or marie be mixed with the fand 

 in the holes where each tree is planted ; and this 

 may be done at a fmall expence. 



Thefe trees will grow here very well. I know 

 feveral large plantations, where the foil has been 

 fo perfectly fandy, that there was not grafs enough 

 to keep one fheep on an acre, and yet after being 

 planted twenty years, there have been two thou- 

 fand trees on an acre, worth at the loweft eftimate 

 one milling each as they flood. A few acres of 

 fuch land thus planted would be a pretty fortune 

 for the younger branch of a family. 



The fecond kind is boggy or wet moors, which 

 are fometimes fo fituated as not to be drained 

 without too great an expence. Wherever this is 

 the cafe, fuch foils may be planted to great ad- 

 vantage^ 



