3 6 OFEARTHS. 



Thefe are the natural advantages and encouragements for 

 hufbandry with us. The prefent date of it, improved foils, and 

 method of culture, fhall be our next consideration. 



The vale between AldJlon-Moor and Neivcajlk upon Tyne, is a 

 very rich natural foil, well wooded, watered by the Tyne, and a 

 variety of mufical flreamlets, turns greatly to the profit, of the 

 hufbandman, grows remarkably fine wheat, and fuch luxuriant, 

 fweet, and fattening grafs, that an ox, fed at Byivell, and killed 

 at Corbridge, 1756, weighed, when cut in quarters, 112 ilone. 

 The manure chiefly ufed in this vale is limeflone, burnt in large, 

 kilns, generally built of flone. 



About Ne-wcajlle, a cold and hungry clay prevails, yet every 

 field appears by culture like a garden, plentifully manured with 

 dungs, fome native, and vaft quantities extraneous, brought at 

 an eafy expence from London, by way of ballaft in the coal- 

 fhips. 



The fea-coaft is chiefly a ftrong clay, manured about Whitley 

 with lime ; to be had no where elfe between the Tyne and Coquet, 

 eaft of the poft-road. 



Many of the farmers between Hartley-Pans and the Coquet pro- 

 cure limeflone in fmall floops from Sunderland'm the bifhoprick of 

 Durham ; with which, and the fea-wreck laid in heaps and rotted, 

 they have good crops of all forts of grain. 



From the Coquet to the Tweed, the ground is annually loaden 

 with valuable grain, peas, beans, barley and wheat, and with 

 fuch feeding grafs, that fome of the largeft and fattefl oxen are 

 fold there, which are commonly fold to the butchers of North- 

 Shields, for the mips in the coal-trade, and to the contractors of 



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