30O SOILS AND SOIL-PROCESSES. 20. 



ftrong blue clay. And what renders this 

 circumftance ftill more remarkable, there are 

 inftances in which the feverai fpecies of foil 

 here enumerated are included within the 

 fame farm. 



A farm thus varioufly foiled is a fpur to 

 ingenuity -, obliging its occupier to break 

 through thofe confined opinions and narrow 

 prejudices, v/hich are too frequcntl\- con- 

 irafted in countries where a uniformity of 

 SOIL, and a regular iioutine of manage- 

 ment prevail. 



This may account, in fome mcafure, for 

 the SPIRIT of IiMPRovfment fo confoicuous 

 among the husbandmen- of the country un- 

 der fnrvey. 



II. Subsoils. The feet and sides of hills 

 generally abound in landsprings and cold 

 wet subsoils, caufed by the waters abforbed 

 by the upper parts of ihc fwells lodging and 

 ilriving tor vent in the lower regions. 



jFrom the cloud of hills which rife to the 

 north of this Vale, it might be expcded that 



a vein 



ticiilarlze thcfe foils as they iriay hereafter, with a va- 

 riety of others, form a frparate fubjcrt of invcftiga- 

 t'on. 



