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APPENDIX. 



The following very valuable communication was made to the Surveyor by the 

 Rev, H. bate DUDLEY, of Bradwell, and is now inferted with, 

 the hope of obtaining fome further enervations. 



JjRADWELL, mar the Sea, is a peninfular parifli, at the eaftern extremity of the hundred 

 of DENGEY, on the conflux of the river Black-vjater^ which here falls into the German Ocean. 

 It contains in feveralty about 4,000 acres of upland, which is chiefly in tillage, and i,;oo in 

 marflies: nearly a moiety of which is under the plough ; the other part continues to be grazed. 

 Thefe marflies, in common with thofe in adjoining pariflies, are under a commiffion of fewers, 

 who regulate the management of the flnices, fea walls, and the frefh water courfes which pafs 

 through .them. The commiffioners, in confequence of a general inundation from the great tide in 

 the fpringof 1791, raifed the fea walls and banks, two feet more in perpendicular height, which 

 will prove a fafe barrier from any fimilar misfortune. The efFe6ls of the fait water, where it lay 

 fourteen days, were not found injurious to the pafturage, nor even the tillage lands, after that 

 year. On the fouth fide of the parifh the fea retires ; and three portions of rich land were em- 

 banked from it, in addition to the glebe in 1786; the completion of which was rewarded by 

 the Society of Arts and Sciences with their gold medal of that year. This newly acquired land, 

 fo lately fait ooze, has fpontaneoufly throv/n out the licheft herbage, in which aie found many 

 of the choiceft grafs plants in the botanic fyftem. About 150 acres has been gained in Bradwel/^ 

 and the example is fuccefsfully adopting in the neighbouring pariflies on the coaft, 



SOIL. — The foil is various ; the uplands are generally a tender, fandy loam, deep in ftaple, 

 and forcing in almofl every kind of vegetation. The * marfhes under the plough, though Wronger 



* Thefe marflies from the many old embankments ftill remaining, have evidently been enclofed from the fea by 

 fucce/Tive advancements; and many of them are ftill divided, as tlic old rills, and fea water courfes left tliem. The 

 removal of the two large fluices on the glebe marflies, nearer the fea, on the late embankments, with ftraight 

 outfalls from them, has been of great advantage to the whole level by a freer drainrge of the frelh waters, 



land. 



