\6 Of the Choice of ScUuationsl 



Room to enlarge oti what I take to be the 

 very Eflential Parts of every Purchafers 

 Choice in a Country Seat, in Refpeft to Wood, 

 Water, and a proper Soil. 



Chap. IIL 



SECTION IIL 



€f the prefer Choice of Soils^ &c. for a 

 Country Seat. 



ON E of the firft and Principal Choices, 

 every Purchafer, Builder and Gardener 

 ought to make, is that of a good Soil : The 

 beft of which are a (andy Loame, and commonly 

 lies in middling Fields or Up-lands 5 or the 

 next a fine Pafture Black Mold, and both of 

 thefc when they are freih 3 or as the inge- 

 nuous Mr. Lawrence terms them, untryed 

 Molds are of excellent U(e, both for Timber, 

 Fruit, Flowers, and Herbidge : It is of great 

 Conftquencelikcwile, what lies next, oris at 

 the Bottom of this upper Surface, which if 

 one could chufe, iliould be One and a Half 

 or Two Foot deep : The beft of our Bottoms 

 then I efteem to be Gravel, Chalk or Shelly 

 Rock mix'd with Earth/ which always abounds 



with 



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