246. WOLDS. 20, 



fed: drynefs of the fubftratum of the Wolds is 

 the only advantage they have, at prefent, in 

 refpeft to climature. 



INCLOSURE. Formerly, the Wolds, whe- 

 ther parcelled out in common field, or dif- 

 pofed in more entire properties, lay entirely 

 open ; excepting a few yards about the vil- 

 lages. The Eafl-Wold-Vale ftill lies in a 

 Hate of common field. But on the higher 

 Wolds fome fpirited attempts have lately been 

 made at inciofure. 



PLANTING. Sir Cbriftopher Sykes may, I 

 believe, claim the honor of being the firft 

 fuccefsful planter upon the Wolds. Attempts 

 had formerly been made ; but without fuc- 

 cefs : owing, perhaps, more to the fmallnefs 

 and the thinnefs of the plantations than to 

 any other mifmanagement. 



Sir Chriftopher,! am well informed, is now 

 contracting, or has contracted with a nurfery- 

 man for upwards of five hundred acres of 

 planting; to be finished in ten years : an un- 

 dertaking which muft do him infinite credit. 



It is, perhaps, to be regretted, that Sir 

 Chriflopher's plantations confift chiefly of 

 the finus-iribc ; moftly of Scotch Fir ; the 



