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DISTRICT THE ELEVENTH. 



Bslng that of a temperate mixed foil, upon a fandy and 

 a gravelly loam, a pure f and, a pure gravel, a chalk, 

 a brick, and fome tile earth. 



Beginning at DUNTON, where the foil in general 

 is of a thin cold nature, upon a brown clay. Afcending 

 thence to LANGDON HILLS, a gentle fandy loam pre- 

 vails upon a gravel, intermixed with veins of a compadl 

 loam upon a brick earth. The lower part of the parifh 

 abutting upon Vange confifts of a wet heavy foil, upon a 

 tile earth. Thefe laft lands are particularly fubjedl to black 

 grafs, and a yellow weed called joy, or wild-gold : fallow- 

 ing for fpring corn is admitted to be the mod effectual way 

 of deftroying the black-grafs ; and hoeing and weeding 

 (which by the bye is an almoft endlefs labour) the wild-gold. 



Southerly, to FOBBING, CORINHAM, and STAN- 

 FORD LE HOPE, the foil is of a light and gentle nature, 

 affording excellent turnips : This continues north-wefterly 

 toHORNDON ON THE HILL, where the land lying 

 weft of the village, towards Orfet, and Bulvan, confifts of 

 a thin wet heavy foil upon a tough red clay. 



At MUCKING a well ftapled gravelly loam, and a 

 lighter foil upon a gravel. Thence through EAST to 

 WEST TILBURY, the higher parts of the country conlift 

 of a thin burning foil upon a gravel ; and the fides of the 

 hills which hang towards the embanked marflies, of a deep 



gravelly 



