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from off the land at a confiderable expence through hollow 

 drains. 



Thefe drains are made three feet deep, and two indies'" 

 wide at the bottom, filled two feet deep with (hingle 

 brought from the fea fhore, or fifted gravel — taking labour, 

 and materials, equally into the account, they will cod: two- 

 fhillings and fix-pence per r(jd, and is an expence very gene- 

 rally incurred upon thefe kind of lands. 



Upon land where the fides of the hollow drains are not 

 liable to crumble or fall in, the drains are made in the 

 ufual manner, filling them with wood andftraw; and at 

 an expence for labour only of 3s. 6d. per fcore rods. Weft- 

 ward from the village is a deep white fandy clay; thence 

 northerly, a ftifF heavy tough clay, upon a tile earth. 



The embanked marfhes, which are here very produflive 

 and extenfive, confifl chiefly of a deep hazel-coloured loam, 

 upon a very fine fea faad or filt. This property is extremely 

 valuable; and would be much more fo were it poifible to 

 command a fupply of water during the dry feafon : fo long 

 as the fprings are flufh upon the higher country, the water 

 continues tolerably abundant and wholefome; and is diffufed 

 through the different levels with great equality, judgment 

 and oeconomy : but when thofe refources fail, which unfor- 

 tunately is too often the cafe in the fummer feafon, the 

 diftreffes in thefe marfiies for drinking-water, and for 

 fencing, are very great indeed. 



A confiderable expence is annually incurred through this 

 neighbourhood in chalking the ftifF heavy lands, and of 



I which 



