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A general rule with all Tandy foils is, 

 that, if dry, the ftiffeft is the beft ; except 

 the black moift fand, which exceeds them 

 all. 



The white chalky foil is, in general, of 

 a cold, wet, fpewy (as the farmers term it) 

 nature ; will not bear ploughing in winter, 

 unlefs the weather is very dry or frofry; 

 runs exceflively to mortar with a heavy 

 ihower, when in a pulverifed ftate. It is 

 a cold hungry foil, of little profit, except 

 with very peculiar management ; and an- 

 fwers beil if tolerably dry laid down to fain- 

 foine. 



The moory foils, in a ftate of cultivation, 

 are too inconfiderable to mention parti- 

 cularly, 



I am fenfible there are a multitude of 

 other forts of land feemingly diftindl from 

 thefe, which are here unnoticed; but it 

 fhould be remembered that the feveral kinds 

 of land, like the ihades of colours, blend 

 into each other, till all diftindtion is loft. 

 Thus many foils are found partaking of 

 both clay and loam, in fo equal a manner, 

 that it is difficult to aflign it to either. We 

 fee the fame thing between gravel and 



loam* 



