{ mas og 
A loofe gravel, or what, perhaps, is ftill better, a 
bed of broken flints, with little or no intermixture 
of earth, wherever it can be obtained, is the moft 
defirable bottom. 
On many of the beft water-meadows in this dif- 
trict, where the bottom is a warm, abforbent gra- 
vel, or rather a bed of broken flints; the foil is not 
fix inches deep, and that depth is quite fufficient, in 
thofe feafons when water is plenty, as the grafs will 
_ root in the warm gravel in preference to the beft 
_ top-foil whatever, and fuch meadows always pro- 
duce the earlieft grafs in the fpring. Nor is it fo 
very material, of what kinds of graffes the herbage 
is compofed, when the meadow is made. That 
kind will always predominate, which agrees bef? with 
the foil and the water, provided the fupply of :vater 
be regular and conftant every winter, otherwife ¢hat 
kind will predominate which will bear wet and dry, 
and fome of the worft graffes, in their native ftate, 
will become the beft when made fucculent by plenty 
of water. 
[Note. Here follows a copious Differtation on the Culture of 
ARABLE Lanps in this diftriét, which it would be acceptable to 
many readers to have inferted; but our limits forbid a complete 
infertion in this place, and an abridgment would be difficult with- 
____ out doing injuftice to the {kill and connexion of the very ingenious 
fet 
author.] 
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