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NORFOLK 



I. 



1780. SfiPTEM-rT^HIS morning, meafured MANURE. 



BER 22d. a fheepfold, fet out for 



600 fheep, confifting of ewes, wedders, and 

 grown lambs. 



It meafures eight by five-and-a-half rods, 

 or forty-four fquare ftatute rods; which is 

 fomewhat more than feven rods to a hundred, 

 br two yards to a Iheep. 



SHEEP. 



2. 



OCTOBER 27th. A few weeks ago a tenant 

 afked for foine top-wood to under- drain 

 part of a clofe of arable land ; which part 

 being cold and fpringy, fcarcely ever pro- 

 duced a crop ; and, this morning, I have been 

 to fee the procefs of under-draining in this coun- 

 try. 



Having from feveral years obfervation mark- 

 ed the fpringy parts, he began by circumfcrib- 



VOL. II, B ing 



DRAINING. 



