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of clay country in Eflex, that beat the pro- 

 duce of the befl; marled lands in Norfolk, 

 even in barky hollow. 



The next profitable farm in this lift, is 

 the clay one, one third grafs and two thirds 

 arable. I fhould have thought, previous 

 to a calculation, that this would, on com- 

 parifon with the reft, have turned out 

 more profitable. It ranks here nearly on 

 a par with the turnip-land farm. 



The feventh is the light land, marled, 

 chalked, or clayed, which yields a profit 

 of better than i^per cent. : This is no trifle, 

 but it is clear that a man had much better 

 employ his money in land, that is already 

 improved and naturally rich, than on foils 

 that require very large difburfements of 

 this nature. I am fenfible, that I have many 

 local prejudices to combat in the arrange- 

 ment of farms, in refpedt of profit. A 

 Norfolk man, for inftance, may fmile at 

 feeing a light foil marled, ranked fo low 

 in this fcale ; but from whence refults the 

 great fortunes made by farming in Nor- 

 folk ? Not from the liipcrlority of their cul- 

 ture, though idly fuppofed the reafon ; but 

 from two circumftances, the one local, the 



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