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DISTRICT THE SEVENTH. 



Temperate and heavy mixed foil, upon a brown tender 

 clay, a gravelly loam, a brick and a tile earth, 



JBeGINNING at PURLEY, where the foil in general 

 confifts of a ftrong deep loam upon a brick earth ; and where 

 hollow draining has been done at fix and eight yards apart, 

 but with fo fmall an effedl, as in a great meafure to difcourage 

 that important pradice. From Purlcy to MUNDEN, a 

 level country, with a deep rich loam upon a brick earth ; 

 this continues foutherly towards LATCHINGTON, where 

 the land lies well for draining, and forms an excellent 

 wheat foil upon a brown tender clay. Proceeding eafl to- 

 wards MAYLAND andSTEPLE, the foil admits of little 

 variation, forming on the higher parts of the country, a flrong 

 heavy clay; which northerly, and inclining to the embank- 

 ed marflies that border upon the Blackwater, is loft in a foil 

 of a more free and tradable nature upon a deep gravelly 

 loam. Thence north-eaftcrly through St. LAWRENCE, 

 extending to, and through BRAD WELL, a deep hazel 

 coloured loam upon a brown tender clay, and a rich friable 

 mould upon a gravel. Returning thence fouth, through 

 TILLINGHAM, the fame rich friable mould prevails, 

 forming at ASHELDON, a lighter mixture upon a gravel, 

 which at DENGY is agreeably varied with feveral fpots of 

 very good turnip land. 



At SOUTHMINSTER the land eaft of the village, 

 and abutting upon the embanked marfhes, confifts of a light 

 hollow gravelly foil, abounding with fprings that are conveyed 



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