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DISTRICT THE THIRD. 



Temperate mixed folly upon a gravelly loam, a fartdy, 

 or a fine gravel; a brown clay, or brick earth', and 

 a red clay or tile earth. 



Beginning at little oakley, through which 



parifh, and that of GREAT OAKLEY, is a ftrong, well 

 mixed deep foil, interfperfed with fome veins of gravel, upon 

 which turnips are cultivated to advantage. The pafture grounds 

 through this neighbourhood, afford very excellent herbage* 

 which continues without any material alteration to WICKES 

 and GREAT BROMLEY, where a ftrong well mixed foil 

 prevails, upon a red and white fandy gravel, under which, 

 in many places, lies a brown tender clay or fandy loam. 

 In this dillarice the land is found very flat, difficult to drain ; 

 and where from the loofenefs of the underftratum (unlefs 

 the work is executed with great care) the hollow drains will 

 require to be renev»'ed every eight or ten years. Proceeding 

 foutherly to LITTLE BENTLEY, the foil and under- 

 ftrata continue the fame ; but thence towards TENDRING 

 and GREAT BENTLEY, the country is a good deal 

 broken, the fides of the hills abounding with fprings, and 

 with all that variety of foil and fubftrata (the chalky clay 

 excepted) fo frequently noticed in the courfe of this journal. 

 Weft from Great Bentley, and crofling a branch of the 

 river Colne to TORRINGTON, the foil is chiefly a deep 

 brown loam, upon a gravel and a brown tender clay. Thence 

 weftward to BRITHLINGSEA, a well mixed foil, of a 

 fair ftaple upon a gravel. The fides of the hills would be 

 very much annoyed with the fprings, were they not gene- 

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