9 8 CULTIVATED GRASSES, n. 



foin, in all probability, principally feed ; con- 

 tain fifty-nine grains of calcareous earth *. 



The anaiyfis of the rock appears in Vol. I. 

 page 336. 



About BROMPTON, in the north-eaft quar- 

 ter of the Vale, good faintfoin is grown ; 

 but, I believe, in no way comparable with 

 that of Malton. 



The/t/7, a lightifli loam ; pretty turnep and 

 barley land j varying in depth. 



The fubfoil y a calcareous loam ; mixt 

 with limeftone or with redftone gravel ; 

 and lying on a limeilone, or on a fedftonc 

 rock. In either cafe, the land is productive 



* It has been conceived that faintfoin feeds on the 

 Hones themfelves ; not on the foi^vvhieh is mixt among 

 them, or which covers them ; and this has fcrved to ac- 

 count for the fuperiority of the faintfoin of Malton. 

 But it fcems much better adapted to the nature of plants 

 to feed among foil, than in ftones ; efpecially when the 

 foil is of a nature fimilar to that of the ftones which mix 

 among it. The lower part of the fubfoil, which forms 

 the upper part of the rock, r? compofed of fmall ftones 

 mixed with an efflorefcent mould, formed in the inter- 

 ftices of the ftones, which mould is almojl wholly calca- 

 nous; fo that the plants in this cafe have a fufficiency 

 or" c ilcareous matter to pafture among without feeding 

 upon the ftones ; which, though foft t cannot in this 

 caie be faid to be porous. 



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