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The cffedbs of marlc have been very great Indeed 

 in this county, having advanced the rent of lands 

 upon which it has been laid, in fome inftanccs, 

 from half a crown to ten (hillings an acre and up- 

 wards. This improvement has been chiefly made 

 on light fandy foils. But marie has been foun4 

 beneficial on all foils. The general opinion with 

 us is, that it not only gives tenacity to the foil, 

 but ads alfo as a manure by virtue of its falts. 

 Our farmers, after the firft drefllng of marie alone, 

 mix it with dung or compoft, and think it much 

 improved thereby. 



When I fay our farmers, I mean the Norfolk 

 farmers, for I do not know that there is one marie 

 pit within two or three miles of mej or that any 

 marie has been difcovered within that diftance, ex- 

 cept what I mentioned to have found in my own 

 park, which was applied wholly on the grafs there- 

 of, being no more than what was dug out of a foflc 

 I was making. 



Our ufe of lime is trivial j and no great benefit 

 has been found to refult from it here : but this is 

 entirely owing to its having been ufed in fuch fmall 

 proportions as could not polTibly have much efFe6t. 

 This, however, is no argument againft the ufe of 



lime: 



