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 fides. Much marie is ufed here on the lighter 

 lands, but for the heavy foils lime-flone gra- 

 vel is preferred. In hiring farms, the lower 

 tenants will take them of $o acres, if they 

 have a few cows and horfes, without a (hil- 

 ling in their pockets. Mr. Rowley keeps a 

 very considerable domain in his hands; ad- 

 joining to it is a black turf bog of admirable 

 ufe for firing. I viewed it attentively, and 

 am clear, that all fuch bogs as this with a 

 fall from them for draining, might very eafily 

 be improved into excellent meadow. The 

 furface is covered with heath about a foot 

 high, and under that eight or nine feet deep 

 of^ puffy fluff, which when burnt yields no 

 afhes ; then the bog turf ten feet deep cuts 

 like butter, and under that a marley lime- 

 flone gravel. They have found at 14 feet 

 deep evident marks of the plough in the foil 

 at bottom, alfo remains of cabbins, cribs for 

 cattle, moofes horns, oaks, yews, and fir, 

 being good red deal. In working for fuel, 

 they dig out the black bog and throw the 

 upper ftratum in its place, , through which 

 open drains being kept, the turfs, as they are 

 du^ are fpread on it for drying. In many 

 fpots I remarked the vernal grafs (aTithoxan- 

 thum odoratum), the holcus (lanatiis), narrow 

 leaved plantain (plantcgolanceolata), docks (ru- 

 mex), white and red clover -, and on the banks 

 of the mafter drains a full crop of fern (pteris 

 aquilina). Upon cutting fmall furface drains 

 on the bog the heath (erica) doubles its growth. 

 The expenfe of cutting drains in the bog fix 



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