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jured by the fprings which rife on their fides. Clover has 

 been fo generally fown in this neighbourhood, that the land 

 has in a great degree become tired of it ; and tares now fown 

 as its fublUtute, feem to encourage a well grounded ex- 

 peilation that the foil in a few years will again admit the 

 culture of that valuable grafs. The principal obfervatioii 

 refpeiting the clover fick lands is, that although at the time 

 of harveft, and during winter there appears to be a very fuf- 

 ficient plant, yet in the fpring it is always found to fail, 

 particularly on the tops of the ridges. Great benefits have 

 rcfulted in this neighbourhood from claying the light lands, 

 and correcting the natural defedls of the feveral foils, by 

 mixing the oppofites of each other together. From Fallc- 

 boarn acrofs to FAIRHEAD, a wet heavy cold foil, upon 

 a chalky clay, and very fubjedl to brambles, and to colts- 

 foot. Thence to TERLING the foil becomes lighter, 

 much intermixed, and very liable to burn in thofe parts 

 which lie near the gravel. Towards HATFIELD- 

 PEVERIL the foil is more uniform, being a fandy loam, 

 upon a Itrong bottom ; under which, in many places, are 

 found a deep rtrata of a white and a yellow fand. A fandy 

 loam, chiefly upon a gravel, forms the foil through Hatfield- 

 Peveril to ULTING, upon which, turnips are cultivated 

 to great advantage. 



Towards WITHAM the land is heavier, forming a 

 tender mould, of a good ilaple upon a clay. In the parillies 

 of BOREHAM and SPRINGFIELD the land is of a 

 light and gentle nature, upon a gravel and tender clay. In 

 thofe of LITTLE and GREAT WALFHAM the fiail 

 is more varied, confifting of a gravelly and a brown tender 

 loam, upon a gravel and a brick earth, and a thin wet grey 

 loam upon a chalky clay. 



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