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These lands are for the most part occupied by dairy or grazing 

 farmers ; and are subject to frequent overflowings of the river 

 which runs through a dam or sluice at Uphill. It is presumed 

 that if the bed of the river at Uphill, and the sluice through which 

 the water is discharged, were deepened three feet, the evil would 

 in a great degree be removed. 



Mr. Good, who occupies a large farm in Hutton, has a method 

 of making cyder, which it may not be amiss to describe. The 

 apples are ground by a horse-mill. The pummice is then wrung 

 in hair-bags ; after which it is put into a tub and chopt. It is then 

 ground over again, and made into a cheese, which stands in the 

 press all night. 



In the morning the press is strained as tight as it will bear by 

 a lever or cap staff: by these means the cheese is made so dry, that 

 it is cut into narrow strips, tied up in faggots, and burnt. He can 

 make one hogshead upon eight more than by the common method. 

 Two men make and tun five hogsheads in a day, and the horse 

 will grind the apples in three hours. 



Query. Is not the quality of the cyder injured by such close 

 expression ? 



As we are now about to quit what is called the North Marsh, I 

 shall advert to the queries proposed by the board. 



The soil of this district 1 have atready described. As to the 

 climate it is rendered so mild and temperate, by the vicinity 

 of the sea, that neither frost or snow are of long duration ; and, 

 unless chilled by too much moisture, it may boast a perpetual 

 verdure. 



Part is possessed by large proprietors and leased out on lives, part 

 is in demesne and let out for short terms, and no small quantity is 

 the fee of the occupiers, constituting a most respectable yeomanry, 

 whose sway is strongly felt at a contested election. 



The farms are not large, seldom exceeding two hundred pounds 

 a year, and accompanied with a very small proportion of arable. 



The artificial grasses are broad clover, marie grass, (Trifolium 

 Alpestre) white Dutch and ray gralTes. 



The stock, partly cows for the dairy, and partly oxen for 

 fatting — both good of their kind. 



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