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thefe leafes fall, the grounds are never 

 let under double the old rent, and mod 

 frequently at the rate above mentioned. 



Their wheat and oats are good, their 

 barley is efteenied the beft, and their 

 crops of turnips are heavier than in any 

 other part of England. Some roots arri- 

 ving, by the common culture of the coun- 

 ty, namely the hand-hoe, at a fize greatly 

 furpaffing any thing we yet know of, 

 though raifed in the horfe-hoeing way. 



I humbly apprehend, arguments, from 

 what we obferve of land lying in a na- 

 tural ftate, may be even brought to fup- 

 port the pra^ice: But this paper being 

 drawn out already to too great a length, 

 I fhall only here remark. 



That where lime ftone or chalk comes 

 pear the furface, there the effects of 

 it are feen upon all roots, plants, and 

 trees, but when it lies only a few inches 

 under the furface, perhaps not above 

 eight or nine inches under the grafs, and 

 in a horizontal pofition, from which there 

 is no wafliing, then it appears not to do 

 the leaft good to what is above it, but 



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