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fhcep is generally allowed to the men fervants in lieu of 

 wafhing : This is found to anfvrer a good purpofe in 

 calling their attention more frequently to the flock, by which 

 means many of the accidents to which that animal is liable, 

 are often obferved in time to remedy, or entirely to prevent. 



Afccnding by the courfe of the river Chelmer to GREAT 

 BADDOW, the fame charafter of foil is found as was de- 

 fcribed in the north quarter of Sandon. South, and extend- 

 ing towards eaft and wefl: Hanningfield, a deep loamy foil, 

 which to the weft ward, and abutting upon WIDFORD, 

 and a part of Chelmsford, becomes of a moift and heavier 

 nature, and refts upon a marly, or rather upon a chalky clay. 

 North, and binding upon the meadows which lie along the 

 Chelmer, the fame tender well ftapled foil defcribed on the 

 eaft, and in the fame diredlion through Sandon. 



The chalky clay has been applied very fuccefsfully 

 upon the gravelly foils in this parifh, thirty loads of forty 

 bufhels each to the acre. 

 Stubbing, filling, and fpreading the fame, at 6s. 



per fcore — — ________ 090 



Four horfes, two tumbrells, and a driver, five days, 



at 15s. per day - -- - __2i5 

 Allowance for beer upon flubbing, filling and 



fpreading - __ _ _ __oi6 



Ditto for the driver - — - __oi3 



^ £-^ 6 9 



The land in general adjoining the tow-n of CHELMS- 

 FORD, is found to confift of a deep rich tender loam, in- 

 termixed with fome veins of gravel. The fandy loam ex- 

 tends eafterly to Springfield and Boreham ; the gravelly, 

 foutherly to Great Baddow; thence wefterly, an heavier 

 foil upon a chalky clay : Towards Writtle the light gravelly 

 foil again appears, which at Broomfield is again loft in a 



H 2 deep 



