t7. NORFOLK. 413 



Were a Kentiih, or any other good wheat, 

 farmer, who had heard much of the fupe- 

 riority of the Norfolk hufbandry, to ride thro' 

 Eaft-Norfolk hi the month of November, he 

 would experience fome difficulty In conceiving 

 himfelf travelling In a country of which fame 

 has fo long fpoken loudly. It is true, he would 

 not unfrequently be ftruck with a beauti- 

 ful objed ; — a kind of fluted frize-work, or 

 any other ornament to the face of the country 

 his fancy might pidure to him ; but he would 

 not lefs frequently be difgufted with the fight 

 of fields which he would little fufpeft, on a 

 curfory view, to be fown wdth wheat. He 

 would rather, at firft fight, take them for 

 rough fallows, on which flieep had been fod- 

 dered with hay they could not eat ; the whole 

 furface being flrewed with tufts of roots and 

 fiems of withered graffes, and with grafl'y clods 

 of every fiiape and dimenfion *. 



* There are, neverthelefs, men who argue in favoi 

 of this management; and, were it prudent to fow wheat 

 on very light *' running fands," it might be proper to 

 preferve part of the *' wreck," as it is well termed, to 

 prevent the fand from being run together by heavy rains • 

 but foils of this nature are, as has been already obferved, 

 generally improper for wheat. 



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