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uncertain nature of the title to areas of this kind. In the 

 main the property resides in the frontager. The Crown 

 possesses certain ill-defined rights, but rarely can make 

 use of them except to deal with the frontager, the more 

 so as the strip to be reclaimed is often only accessible 

 by leave of the frontager. 



(2) Areas of blown sand adjoining the sea. On the 

 coast of North Wales several large areas of this kind 

 are to be found ; next the sea comes a line of dunes, 

 behind which is a comparatively level stretch covered 

 with rough grass and rushes, the soil being almost pure 

 sand. To reclaim these areas the dunes have to be 

 fixed by planting with Austrian and maritime pine, 

 gorse, elder, marram grass, etc. ; a few drainage cuts are 

 often necessary, then the light soil is readily brought 

 under cultivation. This type of land is well suited for 

 market garden cultivation, both by its ease of working 

 and proximity to the sea, provided that it is liberally 

 supplied with phosphatic and potash manures at the 

 outset. Some of these areas contain a certain propor- 

 tion of strong alluvial soil adapted to corn growing and 

 akin to the valuable land adjoining the Wash and the 

 Humber. The cost of the preparation of the land for 

 cultivation is low, but the charge to be met depends in 

 each case upon the proportion the cultivable area bears 

 to that of the dunes requiring fixing. In some cases too 

 high a price is demanded for areas of this kind that are 

 capable of profitable reclamation, because of their 

 possible value for development as seaside estates. 



In character intermediate between this t ype and that 

 previously described are certain areas that are neither 

 links nor slob land. In one case there exists a block of 

 about six square miles of land only commanding a 



