1782. 



NORFOLK. 



169 



TIONS. 



might be drawn from this fmall plantation : 95. 



enough to keep the common buildings of the WEEDING 

 eftate in repair for fome years : and this, too, 

 with a trifling expence of fawing, compared 

 with that which is necefiary to the redu&ion of 

 grown timbers into fmall icantling*. 



96, 



APRIL 3, Spent the afternoon with the 

 Rev. Mr. Horfelcy, of Swayfield ; and walked 

 with him over his improved meadows. 



They are the only meadows in the county 

 (at leaft that have fallen under my obfervation) 

 which have been managed with any degree of 

 fpirit or judgment. 



Mr. Horfeley fays, that when he purchafcd 

 them (fome eight or ten years ago) they were 

 a mere morafs : fo very rotten that it was dif- 

 ficult even for a man to walk acrofs them; 

 producing very little herbage fuperior to rufhes 

 and mofs. They are, now, (even after this 

 uncommonly wet fcafon) firm enough to bear 

 the largeft cattle; and are covered with a turf 

 equal in appearance to the richefl grafsland. 



* I flatter myfelf nn apology is neceflary for the length 

 of this Minute : planting is an important branch of rural 

 affairs ; and it is in tall plantations, rather than in the 

 nurfery, we ought to ftudy the great principle! of ihe art. 



Mr, 



MEADOWS, 



