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DISTRICT THE SIXTH. 



Temperate mixed foil upon a gravel, a fand, a browft 

 tender clay, and fame Jlrong clay, or tile earth. 



J3EGINNING fouth, and proceeding wefterly of the 

 village of PEERING, where the land upon the fides of 

 the hills which hang towards the Blackwater river, confifts 

 chiefly of a light gravelly foil, abounding with fprings, and 

 ufually denominated hollow bottomed land, that frequently 

 fubjeds the wheat to the mildew, and to be root fallen. 

 The fpringy-" places have been much relieved by hollow 

 draining, as has alfo the wet heavy lands in the north 

 quarter towards Coggershall, Earls Colne, and Little Tey: 

 adjoining the village on the eaft, a light grrvelly foil; but 

 extending thence towards EAST THORP, and MES- 

 SING, a brown tender loam, of a good ftaple, interfperfed 

 with fome very fair turnip land. 



On the fides of the hills through INWORTH, GREAT 

 and LITTLE BRAXTED, and abutting upon the mea- 

 dows which lie along the Blackwater river; the land is 

 chiefly of a loofe hollow nature, but in which are found veins 

 of flrong found land, upon a brown tender clay; thence 

 wefterly and binding upon Tiptree Heath, a tl-in dry foil 

 upon a harfh gravel. This general chara£ler prevails with- 

 out any material alteration through the parifhes of WICK- 

 HAM BISHOP, LANGFORD, and HEYERIDGE, 

 forming upon the higher parts of thecountry,very good turnip 

 land, upon the fides of the hills, a confiderable mixture ; 



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