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cultivate ; it is a very loofe inoory land, 

 to the depth of about fix or feven inches, 

 and under it a ftiff clay; they ry 



poor corn upon it, efpecially barley ; 

 beans fuit it beft. It is, like all the other 

 land in the country, kept on broad high 

 ridges, and as the clay is ftiff and retentive 

 of water, which finds no drains to carry 

 it off, the furrows in winter are half full 

 of it. I apprehend it is to this caufr the 

 poverty and loofenefs of the land is owing ; 

 if the furface was ploughed down, and 

 well drained with hollow drains, by lying 

 dry in the winter, it would become firmer 

 and more found ; this efFect I have often 



ob- 



clumps to the water's edge well difpofed : From 

 thence, pafling by a bridge, yon follow the 

 water through a pafture ground, with walks and 

 benches around it ; the banks clofely (haven, 

 the bends of them natural, and quite in the ftile 

 of a real river. About the middle of the field it 

 divides and forms a fmall ifland, which contains 

 two or three clumps of Ihrubs, and is a very 

 great ornament to the place ; the walk after- 

 wards leads to the other winding ones around 

 the field, which is certainly laid out in general 

 in a good tafte. There are, however, one or 

 two circumftances, that cannot fail of ftriking 

 every fpectator, which, if they were a little al- 

 tered, would be a great improvement. Directly 

 acrofs the whole runs a common foot-way, 

 which, though walled in, cuts the grounds too 



much ; 



