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been mentioned. Viewed in this light, it is 

 i fpecitnejj oi country which admits not, petT 

 haps, of comparifon. Within the narrow 

 limits of a few miles barren heath and 

 RICH FEN LANDS are included ; with al- 

 moft every intermediate foil : unprodud:ive 



GRITSTONE SAND ; thin-foilcd LIMESTONE 



LOAM ; deeper and more productive " red- 

 stone LAND * ;" rich deep pebbly loam + i 



ilrong 



* Red-stone land.— This fingular fpccies of foil 

 is compofed of loam of different qualities, intermixed 

 ■with a greater or lefs quantity of foft fandy ilones, 

 about the ordinary fize of flints, and of a dark yellow 

 or orange colour J a fpecies of grit, or free-ftone. The 

 cultivated foil is in fome inftances nearly half of it made 

 \\p of thefc ftoncs ; vyhlch, fome men are of opinion, 

 afford in themfelves a degree of nutriment to corn 

 crops. An inftancc is mentioned, in which a gre;;t 

 quantity of thefe ftones having been gathered off as an 

 incumbrance to the foil, its produftivenefs was much 

 lowered ; but the ftones being returned, the foil alfo 

 returned to its former (irate of fertility. Be this as it 

 may, the foil under notice is beyond difpute one of the 

 fiiieft corn foils in the iiland. 



f Pebbly loam. This foil is noticed as being, 

 taken all in all, the mofl: li/eful foil I have any where 

 yet obferved. It is equally produftive of corn ox grafs ; 

 may be worked as arable latid in any feafon ; and is 

 fgijnd enough in grafi to bear ftock ia winter. I p .r- 



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