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The land at FORDHAM, lying fouth-wefterly from the 

 church, and abuitins^ upon Coptford and Aldham, confills 

 of a light fandy and gravelly foil, abounding with fprings. 

 Thence north-wefterly and towards Little Horfeley, a mix- 

 ture of foil upon a chalky clay, which continijes without 

 any material alteration eaflerly, through WORMING- 

 FORD and MOUNT BUERS, where, binding upon the 

 river Stour, is a ftrong well flapled tender loam, upon a 

 gravel. The fides of the hills, though abounding with 

 fprings, are very apt to burn in dry feafons; and not un- 

 frequently are found in the fame field, a rank red fand, 

 white lafliy moor (/'. e. watery marl) firong heavy clay, 

 upon a tile earth, and rich found loam, upon a tender clay. 



The mill dams, and the navigation from Maningtree to 

 Sudbury, by keeping the water in the river Stour too high 

 for the level of the adjoining meadows, prove very injurious, 

 as on the flighteft frefhes thofe lands are frequently inundated. 



At EARLS COLNE the land in general is a well 

 working foil, upon a brown tender loam, intermixed with 

 fome good turnip land. The fame charader of foil is 

 continued through GREAT TEY and ALDHAM, but 

 after croffing the head branch of the Roman River, and 

 afcending towards MARKS and LITTLE TEY, the foil 

 is found to vary from a ftrong wet clay upon a tile earth, 

 to a grey tender loam upon a chalky clay, intermixed with 

 a few fpots, upon which turnips are occafionally cultivated, 

 though not without much injury to the fucceeding crop. 



The land in the parifh of COGGERSHALL, forms a 

 fandy and gravelly loam, of a fairitaple, upon a brick earth, 

 a gravel, and a white chalky clay. This latter fubftance, 

 after hollow draining the wet fpringy Jands, is applied with 

 very good effedt, in _the proportion of fifty loads, and at 



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