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fort, mixed with daifies, and yellow, crimfon, and white pe- 

 rennial clovers, eat up to the very roots by the meep and cattle. 

 Our limeftone earths, a natural loam, may be diflinguiflied from 

 all others in the fpring by their herbage, enamelled and tiffued 

 with a variety of odoriferous and fanative plants, the primrofe, 

 cowflip, and oxlip, daifies, and violets, clovers, and all the felf- 

 heals, both carmine, purple, and white, giving a delicate flavour 

 to the mutton fed with it, a fine grain and texture, and colour, 

 beautifully marbled with fat and lean, affording rich gravies, 

 and by nice and curious palates preferred to venifon. Our dairies 

 by fuch herbage have a preference to all others ; the butter as 

 yellow as gold, and of a fragrant fweetnefs ; the milk light, and 

 free from grofs juices, and of a pleafant tafte. 



It is furprifing, that turnep-hufbandry mould be fo much in 

 famion, which fpoils the dairy, and the fhambles, fends fuch 

 grofs-flavoured milk, cream, and butter, beef and mutton, to 

 our tables It is well enough for a Succedaneum in the cold winter- 

 months, or in unfavourable fummers for grafs, but to give it fo 

 much of our care and attention, to the neglect of other cultures, 

 the cheriihing of natural herbage, can be nothing but the effect 

 of avarice or iloth. 



Cretaceous earths or Maries are of admirable life in hufbandry, in 



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the culture of all kinds of lands, defigned either for grafs or 

 corn. We have them of various colours, and of various degrees 

 of ftrength and goodnefs, in feveral places. 



A reddifli-brown marie is in a confiderable quantity at ILlerton, 

 near Rodham. It is of a firm and clofe texture, unctuous in hand- 

 ling, flightly colouring the fingers, and flowly diffufible in water, 

 It melts in the mouth, and has no difagreeable tafte ; pure, and 



free 



