foils, unfavourable; a fall, or inclination 

 fome way or other, adds much to the value. 

 Such a foil may exift unknown, for want 

 of hollow draining; but then any little 

 rifmg place, that is dry, will, in all pro- 

 bability, prove an index to the reft. 

 Twenty {hillings an acre, for this land, when 

 drained, is a much deeper rent than 5*^. 

 for the other clay. 



The next foil I mall mention is that of 

 the ftiff loam, which is neareft allied to 

 brick earth ; this is in general an unkindly 

 foil, without plenty of manure. It is known 

 in winter, by being very adhefive upon 

 walking over it ; is not fo retentive of water 

 as the firft-mentioned clay, being very eafily 

 drained ; but is long in drying, even when 

 little or no water is feen upon it : For which 

 reafon, it is generally late in the fpring be- 

 fore it can be ploughed. When quite dry, it 

 breaks up neither fo hard and cloddy as 

 the firft clay, nor near fo crumbly and mel- 

 low as the fecond. If it is in ftubble, it is 

 apt to be covered with a minute green mofs. 

 There are many varieties of this foil, but 

 all agree in moft of thefe circumftances, and 

 in being what the farmers call poor, cold, 



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