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The beneficial efFe6ls of this lafl fubftance, as a manure 

 v;hcn applied on the light lands, at the rate of fixty loads 

 (forty bufliels each) and at an expence of four pounds per 

 acre, is fuppofed, in this neighbourhood, to lad twenty 

 years. 



A fimilar variety with the lafl: defcribed foil, feems to 

 prevail through GREAT and LITTLE LEIGH, where, 

 although the commons are very wet, they are not liable to 

 communicate any injurious efFeds to the fheep and cows 

 that depafture upon them. A light loamy gravel, of a fair 

 flaple, prevails through FELSTEAD, which, with a mix- 

 lure of brown tender loam, upon a chalky clay, continues 

 through .STEBBING. 



The foil in the parifli of LINDSELL confifts of a brown 

 loamy clay, upon a blue and white chalky clay, a deep 

 binding gravelly loam upon a clayey gravel ; and a well 

 flapled fandy loam upon a gravel, and a brown tender clay. 

 This lafl defcription of foil prevails northerly to LITTLE 

 BARDFIELD, where the pleafure that is received by 

 palling through a beautifully diverfified, well watered, and 

 fruitful country, is greatly alloyed, by obferving fome of 

 the pafture land putting on a very rough and negledled 

 appearance. 



The heavy lands under cultivation in the parifh of 

 THAXTED, have obtained a fair flaple, but thofe which 

 have long been in a flate of reft, are thought to have been 

 much Injured by compreffion. This obfervation applies 

 equally to thofe lands which have a white chalky clay 

 bottom, as to thofe which lie upon a tough red clay or 

 tile earth. 



Great improvements might here be made by laying to- 

 gether the Intermixed property In the open field, which 



would 



