86 Improvements in Norfolk. 



century, have converted the worst natural soil 

 in the empire into a surface which now con- 

 tends with the most luxuriant in the produc* 

 tion of all kinds of grain. 



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When King James wished to parcel Norfolk 

 out, to make roads for the rest of England, it 

 could not have been in his contemplation that 

 on a future day the agriculture of this county 

 would give it a rank amongst the most valuable 

 parts of his dominions. The rapid progress 

 made on so discouraging a subject as the soil 

 of Norfolk, during a period when so little 

 improvement has been made in the more na- 

 turally fertile districts, may be ascribed to 

 three local advantages ; the dryness of its cli- 

 mate the presence of marl- and the introduc- 

 tion of the turnip husbandry, by the first 

 Marquis of Townshend's father ; to whose in- 

 defatigable labours the posterity, not only of 

 Norfolk, but the whole island, are under the 

 most weighty obligations, 

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The mail is arrived, and our immediate em- 

 barkation announced : I have only time to add, 

 that in petitioning Heaven for a fair wind, and 

 a smooth sea, I do not forget to include health, 

 happiness, and sunshine for you. Adieu. 



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