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ing inclofures ; many of the ditches perhaps 

 never having, from the time of making to 

 the time of fcouring, admitted a current of 

 water; but confitls altogether of dead weeds, 

 leaves of the hedge, and the mouldering of 

 the bank and the fides of the ditch. 



The efFed: of the air of Norfolk upon the 

 Norfolk foil expofed in this manner is extraor- 

 dinary : the moft barren rufly fubftratum ex- 

 pofed for a few years in the face of a ditch -bank, 

 is changed into a rich black mould, of a ferti- 

 lizing quality. This change, in a greater or lefs 

 degree, takes place in every country; but I have 

 not obferved it, any where, fo obvious as it is in 

 this Diflrittl. Perhaps, the fea-air, adding upon a 

 loofe porous foil, may afTift in producing this 

 change. Be this as it may, it is an interefling 

 fact ; by which, perhaps, Norfolk hufbandmen, 

 at leafl, might profit (fee Min. 77. on this 

 fubjedt.). 



Another fource of " manner" is ufdefs turf. 

 The backs of ditch-banks — the borders of fences 

 in general — the fides of lanes, and the nooks of 

 yards, &c. Sec. which, in other places, are fuf- 

 fered to remain, from generation to generation, 

 the nurfery of weeds, are, by the Norfolk far- 

 mers. 



