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thinner from them. A g;ood hide is worth 3I. 

 or 4I. but in common from 30s. to 40s. 



The foil of this neighbourhood is, much of 

 it, a dry ftoney loam, which wants no drain- 

 ing ; and whenever red clover is fown and 

 left, the white comes in perfecl fheets, but 

 the bottoms are ftrong land, wet' and had. 

 All the dry lands would do perfectly well for 

 turnips; Mr. Gerard tried them, and got fine 

 crops : but the poor ftole them in car loads, 

 which made him leave off the practice. 



Under the boggy bottoms there is a very 

 fine white marle T of a fort I have not feen in 

 England; it is under four feet of black bog, 

 and lies in a flratum, 14. feet thick, on blue 

 gravel ; it is always found under the black, 

 not the red bog; it cuts with turf fpades, 

 quite like white butter, but in the air falls 

 into a fandy powder to appearance : it is un- 

 commonly light in the hand, and has a very 

 great efTervefcence with acids, as I tried. Mr. 

 G. has marled 109 acres, and found the bene- 

 fit immenfe. Lays 2 or 300 barrels an acre, 

 and always on tillage. 



He has made many covered drains with 

 ftones, the efFeit of which is great ; and he 

 has his fields fenced in the molt perfecl man- 

 ner by deep ditches, high banks, and well 

 planted hedges. 



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