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deep, rich, grey loam, upon a tender brown, and a white 

 chalky clay. 



The average annual produce, and value per acre for the 

 laft feven years of the hop cultlire in this neighbourhood 

 (lands thus : 

 6 cwt. 2q. 1 8 lb. per acre, at fix guineas per cwt. 



or I3id. per ib. equals - — ----40190 

 Refufe poles 300 at 7s. per hundred _ _ _ i i o 

 Old bines - -- - ___--- 050 



42 5 o 

 Average annual expence per acre, every poflible 



ciiarge included — _______ 29 58 



Total net profits per acre for feven years £-i'2. 19 4 



The face of the country through WEST, EAST, and 



SOUTH HANNINGFIELD, is very much broken into 



hills, and confequently compofed of all that variety of foil 



fo generally prevalent in fuch afpedls. From South Han- 



ningfield to RUNWELL and DOWNHAM, the land is- 



equally broken, and to the varieties of foil obfervable 



through the Hanningfields, is to be added a larger portion of 



loofe hollow bottomed ground, which by a due attention to 



hollow draining, and the application of clay, may be very 



highly improved. This general character continues wefterly, 



and forms the foil of the land lying eaft of the church, in the 



parifti of STOCK. Thence foutherly, and abutting upon 



Burfted. and Mountneyfing, a ftrong foil upon a brown 



clay, under which, in feveral places, are found veins of a 



perfedlly pure blue, and a yellow woodland clay. The fame 



foil and fubftrata continues wefterly through BUTTSBURY, 



MOUNTNEYSING, and INGATESTONE ; but thence 



northerly, and binding upon MARGRETTING, the 



country gets more hilly, the foil in general more varied, and 



of a heavier nature. 



The 



