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The late SIR CHARLES TURNER ranks 

 higheft as an improver of the Morelands. 

 But Sir Charles's fite of improvement is not 

 a fair fpecimen of the two hundred thoufand 

 acres of uncultivated heath which are the 

 immediate fubjedt of this article. 



Keldale, the principal fite, is a valley ifiuing 

 out of Cleveland. The bottom, which has 

 formerly been inclofed, is a rich loam of great 

 depth; but had been rendered unproductive 

 for want of draining. The fides of the val- 

 ley are varioufly foiled ; moftly bog, or a fat 

 moory foil, formed probably by fprings, with 

 which the whole valley abounds, and which 

 having trickled down its fides from age to 

 age, have clad them in vegetable mould. 

 Keldale, at the time Sir Charles undertook 

 its improvement, was a neglcfted valley , whofc 

 foils were full of infringe riches, and required 

 nothing but an improvement of their fubfoil 

 to render them highly productive. 



Had the improvements of this valley been 

 fet about with deliberation, and carried on 

 with judgement and firmnefs, the profits ari- 

 fing from it would have been exceedingly 

 great. Even in the eccentric way in which 



they 



