*. Y O R K S ri IRE. ij 



The AREA of the Vale is extremely flat ; 

 nearly level -, but being broken by hillocks 

 of different magnitudes, irregularly fcatter- 

 ed ; and fometimes by promontories flioot- 

 ing from the marginal banks ; the eve can 

 feldom judge either of its flatnefs or its 

 extent. 



Thefc HILLOCKS and head lan'ds are in- 

 variably fertile; moilly a fat clay : while 

 the bafe on which they ftand is either a rich 

 fandy loam ; the common foil of the weft 

 end of the Vale ■, or an Inferior clay, inter- 

 • iperfcd with patches of moory foil ; the pre- 

 vailing foils of the marfnes and carrs of the 

 eaftern divifion. 



The MARGINS are varioiifly foiled. The 

 Ikirts of the banks are moflly a rich middle 

 loam ; dry, yet ccol (how eligible for the 

 fitcs of villages !) but generally decreafe in 

 quality with the rife of the hills Vvhich back 

 them. 



7'he WOLD HILLS, which on this f.de are 

 bold but not broken, terminate at their fum- 

 m/it In a thin chalky loam ; — the foil of Epfom 

 and Banftead do.vns. 



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