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From Langley eaftward towards ARKS DEN and 

 WENDEN, the country is broken into hills, and contains 

 much of the fame variety of foil as was noticed upon the 

 confines of Cambridgefliire. 



Through the parifhes of NEWPORT, WICKHAM 

 BONHUNT, RICK LING, QUENDON, UGLEY, 

 HENHAM ON THE HILL, ELSENHAM, STAN- 

 STED MONTFITCHET, and BiRCHINGER, the 



foil is a good deal intermixed, and confifts of a loamy and 

 a harfh gravel, and a mild grey loam of a good ftaple upon 

 a chalky clay, below which, are veins of ftrong red clay or 

 tile earth. 



The lands of FARNHAM, MANUDEN, BERDEN, 

 and CLA VERING, are found to confift of an hazel coloured 

 gravelly loam upon a gravel, a thin clofe heavy foil upon a 

 blue and white clay, and a thin dry hurrocky foil upon a 

 chalk. 



The rough and unimproved paftures in this neighbourhood, 

 feem in a great meafure to owe their prefent inferioritv :to 

 the very wet and comprefTed ftate in which they have been 

 lying for ages. Upon fuch as have been hollow drained and 

 kept open with the plough for a few years, and then laid down 

 into pafture, improvements have been made that are truly 

 aftonifliingi The general opinion upon this queftion amonp- 

 the moft attentive and intelligent afrraers is this; that the 

 pafture lands upon the wet cold tile earih bottoms, ought to 

 be kept under the plough for about three years in twenty. 



Alight tender loam, upon a vein of gravel, is found to 



flretch foutherly from Hatfield Heath through High Laver 



to Morton and Bobbingworth,' affording an excellent fupply 



of materials for repairing the roads in thofe pari flies through 



which it extends. 



HATFIELD 



