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lawns. The various avenues of trees, extending in 

 many parts for miles together, the rivers and 

 ftreams winding along the vales, and anfwering the 

 necefTary purpofes of machinery, agriculture and 

 trade, — the many beautiful villages and populous 

 towns, with their churches and lofty fpires, (20 of 

 which may be feen at a time), when viewed from 

 an eminence, prefent a profped beautifully diverfi- 

 fied, and highly pidlurefque, and which cannot fail 

 to delight the eye, and enliven the heart of every 

 fpedator. 



Soil. — There is great variety in the foil of this 

 diftricl, and feveral very diilincSl kinds are found in 

 almofl; every parilli or lordlbip. Thefe may be 

 clafled as follows : 



i/?,* Strong, deep ftapled foil, chiefly confifting 

 of clay, free from any mixture of ftone or gravel. 



id. Light, thin, reddiib foil, chiefly confilling of 

 loam 6 or 8 inches deep, on a bed of fl:one, here 

 called Kealy, or Scaley rock. 



3^, A rich loam of B or 10 inches deep, with a 

 mixture of gravel, the under ftratum being clay, 

 mixed with fmall pieces of red or white fl:one. 



^tb, A thin, ftaple, light clay, very retentive of 

 •water. 



^th, Fen and meadow land. 



Climate. — The climate of this county is very fa- 

 vourable both to health and vegetation, and this 

 may be accounted for from its fituation and other 

 natural- advantages. 



It is abundantly fupplied with excellent water. 

 The furface of the ground is no where fo elevated, 

 as to confine the foggy and unwholefome vapours 

 (which at times arife in this a d in every country) 

 from being fpeedily dilperfed. As there are no 

 high hills here, it is in a great meafure exempted from 



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