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ance. On a level with the fummit of thefe preci- 

 pices is a broad upland furface, capable of being 

 converted to corn or paflure land of a firfl-rate 

 quality. 



The fwells or hills of this forefl are very generally 

 compofed of immenfe beds of red or white marl, the 

 colour fometimes changing fuddenly, fo that in a 

 fmall diftance they are as diftincl as can be conceived. 

 This marl, of a friable mouldering texture, continues 

 from the very furface to many yards in depth. In 

 fome of the inclofed land adjdining, particularly Ad- 

 derley-park farm, it is the fame, and both colours 

 have been ufed promifcuoudy for marling land with 

 equally good efFe£l; and very probably the white 

 may contain the greater proportion of calcareous 

 earth. The white loamy furface is alfo equally pro- 

 duflive of corn or pafture with the red, and equally 

 cfteemed by the farmer. This white marl I had 

 never obferved before. The forefl is flocked with 

 deer, horned cattle, and horfes; but no flieep are 

 fulTered to feed on it. The fuppofed ftock may be 

 about three thouflmd deer, and three thoufand of 

 all the other kinds in fummer, but much fewer in 

 winter. The keeping of the 3000 horfes and horned 

 cattle, charged at 12 s. per head for the fummering, 

 amounting to 1 800 pounds, or about 4s. per acre, is 

 all the advantage that a neighbouring very intelli- 

 gent -iarmer fuppofes the publick derive from this 

 traft, the deer not being managed in any fyflem for 



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