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hazel coloured loam of a fair ilaple, upon a brick earth, 

 and a lighter foil upon a gravel. 



Th6 heavier lands in this neighbourhood, might be much 

 benefitted by hollow draining, but this material improvement 

 is too much negledled, nor is it without pain to be obferved, 

 that fo little attention is paid to the removal of the road and 

 hedge greens. Thefe often rife above the level of the 

 fields and highways, and by preventing the difcharge of the 

 water, prove as injurious to them, as they are a reproach to 

 the farmer vv^ho fuffers them to remain fo : the inclofures too, 

 in many places, are unneceflarily fmall ; the land is thus 

 choaked and fmothered with ufelefs hedgerows, that are filled 

 with old pollards, and rubhifii of every kind, which draw 

 and exhauft the land for feveral poles deep in every field ; 

 for this latter evil however, it is butjuft to obfervc, that 

 probably no blame ought to attach upon the tenant farmer^ 



Proceeding foutherly from fouth-weald to GREAT 

 WARLEY, a mixture of gentle foils, which to the eaft- 

 ward of the village, and towards LITTLE WARLEY 

 are gradually loft, in a flrong heavy foil upon a yellow 

 clay. 



The afpeS: of the country here is broken and irregular, 

 and although the fides of the hills are found to teem with 

 a number of fprings, they are not fo generally a fubjedl of 

 complaint, as in many other places. 



The land lying on the north fide of the churches of 

 CRANHAM and UPMINSTER, forms a cold wet foil of 

 a thin ftaple upon a tile earth. Thence foutherly to NORTH 

 and SOUTH OKENE)EN, a deep gentle loam upon a 

 lender clay and gravel. Thence to AVELEY a well ftapled 

 friable mould upon a gravelly loam, and a thin dry foil upon 



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