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1. SOIL. There is a difadvantage in (lock- 

 ing a rich foil with rabbits: aflufh of grafs, 

 after a dry fcafon, is found to throw them into 

 a fcouring ; which fometimes carries off great 

 numbers. 



2. BURROWING-GROUND. Upon the high 

 Wolds the burrows are moftly on the fides of 

 bills: ai COLDHAM, principally in one deep 

 valley ; whofe fides are fteep, giving the rab- 

 bits great freedom in working. The foil in 

 this cafe about eight or ten inches deep ; un- 

 der this a chalky rubble of fome inches 

 ttiick, lying on a chalkflone rock. The bur- 

 rows are in the fubfoil, between the foil and 

 the rock, and chiefly toward the tops of the 

 hills*. 



But at DRIFFIELDGREETS, near Driffield, 

 where there are two large warrens, the fur. 

 face is a dead flat ; neverthelefs the warrens 

 are well-flocked and produclive; a proof 

 that a flat furface may, in fome cafes, be pro- 

 fitably flocked with rabbits. The foil, ia 

 this cafe, a light land or gravelly loam, 



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Thousands of da'.vs build their nefts in thcfe bur- 

 rows, to the great annoyance of the rabbiy. 



