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being generally cultivated, and abounding with 

 fprings, are very fruitful; fome few excepted, which 

 afford good feed for flieep. 



In fonfie parts, the foil is gravelly, and abounds 

 with flints like that of Hannplhire, In fome other 

 parts, it is a ftrong clay; but in the general, it 

 confifts of a fine hazel loam, mixed with juft 

 enough fand to make it work kindly, and render 

 it eafily penetrable to the tender fibres of grain 

 and plants. 



Being furrounded by the fea, the air, and confe- 

 quently the dews and vapours when condenfed and 

 falling in rain, are impregnated with falts, which 

 add greatly to the fertility of the foil. 



Rents are in general from fixteen to twenty-one 

 fliillings per acre; fome meadow lands, near the 

 principal towns, cohfiderably higher. 



Manures. 



I was informed by feveral farmers, that, 'till 

 within a few years paft, lime was almoll the only 

 manure ufed in the ifland, farm-yard dung excepted : 

 but of 1^ chalk has been much fubftituted in 

 its (lead, . The farmers find, from experience, that 



chalk 



