( 66 ) 



which the following account may be taken as the average 

 per ann. 



Eight waggons of 90 bufhels each, cofting at the 



wharf, or landing place, lis. per load - - 4 8 o 



Carting, filling, and fpreading the fame at los. 6d. 



per load ___».--.-.-.__ 440 



/.8 12"^ 



Which drefllng is fuppofed to z6t with an almoft unabating 

 force for the firft twenty years, following a lapfe of three- 

 years (which time is allowed for the chalk to melt down and 

 incorporate with the foilj from the time that it was firft 

 applied or fpread upon the ground. The fame expencc 

 frequently occurs in chalking the marfhes; but its effeds 

 there, are neither fo obfervable, or fo permanent, as upon 

 the ftronger higher lands. 



The culture of carraway, coriander, teazel, white muf- 

 tard and colefeed, is occafionally attended to and anfwer 

 very well upon fre{h land, where the depredations of the 

 Aug, and the wire tvorm, are the almoft certain deftrudlion 

 of the firft crops of grain. 



The foil and other circumftances of BURNHAM arc 

 very fimilar to the above, faving that at Burnham, there is 

 a greater convenience of water carriage to procure foreign 

 manure, or to fhip the produce of the farm at a lefs expence 

 for market. 



A thin gravelly foil prevails on the eaft fide of CRICK- 

 SEA church. Thence foutherly, the foil varies from a 

 ftifF clay upon the hills, to one of a more gentle nature, 

 abutting upon the marfhes; wefterley towards Althorne, a 



ftrong 



