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remarkable for its high proportion of fine silt. As far as we know, the 

 figures both for soil and subsoil are the highest recorded for this fraction. 



(6) Estuarine alluvia. 



These soils occur, as was mentioned, in two localities. The Clwyd 

 estuary has a much heavier alluvium than the Dee. In the former area, 

 owing to bad drainage, much of the land is in a rough state, but higher 

 up the vale the cultivation is better. The Dee alluvia form an area 

 which has been reclaimed in comparatively recent years. The soils 

 vary from loams to coarse sands. This area is fairly flat and easily 

 worked. The agriculture is very varied. Both market gardening and 

 ordinary farming exist side by side. Some of the soil is of considerable 

 fertility, but this is probably the result of good farming. 



In the case of the alluvial soils it is useless to give average figures as 

 the variations are so great. The figures given will serve rather as 

 examples of the variations encountered. 



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