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done with great regularity into the lafl: made furrow, not In 

 a clofe narrow row (which by the bye is a very material defe£l 

 in mod drill machines) but fcattered evenly in the bottom of 

 the furrow and with as much fafety as it is polTible or ne- 

 cefiTary. This box by a kick with the foot, which flops the 

 difcharge of ihe feed, may be applied to clofe or alternate 

 drilling, or to any width of interval whatever. The whole 

 contrivance is particularly light and fimple, not eafily to be 

 put out of trim, and does much credit to the ingenuity of 

 the inventor. 



The foil of Debden, WIDDINGTON and CHICK- 

 NEY, is of a nature very fimilar to the laft defcribed, and 

 the fame continues with little variation through CHAW- 

 RETH or BROXTED to TILTEY, where a well ftapled 

 ftrong loam, upon a blue and white chalky clay, forms a 

 foil that is very prolific in corn, but unfavourable to per- 

 manent pafture and to the culture of artificial grafles. 



^ LITTLE EASTON, TAKELEY, LITTLE ?nd 

 GREAT CANFIELD, prefent but little difference of foil 

 or fubftrata from that defcribed in the preceding pariflies; 

 and which indeed continues wefterly of the Roding River, 

 and with little variation through the hamlet of Morrel Rod- 

 ing, and the parifhes of AYTHORPE RODING,WHITE 

 RODING, ABBOTS RODING, RODING BEAU- 

 CHAMP, MATCHING, LITTLE LAYER, HIGH 

 LAYER and MAGDALEN LAYER to NORTH 

 WEALD ; where the land is found chiefly to confift of a 

 wet heavy foil, upon a chalky and a red tough clay. 



The mod judicious way of laying thefe lands dry, and 

 improving them at the fame time with their natural manure, 

 is to open the partition ditches of the undrained and un- 

 improved fields, eight feet wide, and from four to five feet 

 deep, applying the chalky clay which is dug out of them to 



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