12 SOIL. 



LIGHT SAND. 



From RicIcUesworth, by West Hailing, there nre poor 

 thin sands on irarle. At Qiiiddenham it improves, and 

 continues better thiough Eccles to Snetterton. The crops 

 5n Harling-ficld, in this wet season, miserably poor, hardly 

 yielding the seed again ; yet a most luxuriant growth of 

 spontaneous chicory and mellilot, which shews the profit 

 to which the traiSt might be applied, if the hints offered 

 by the beneficence of the Almighty were pursued. 



From Attleborough to Euston, by Rowdham and Bre- 

 tenham, a dreary country, beginning with rich, but som- 

 bre commons, and then crossing poor open heaths and 

 sheep-walks, and open arable, thar cries aloud for chi- 

 cory : poor sand, on chalk and marie. 



RICH LOAM. 



One of the most interesting circumstances in the hus- 

 bandry of Norfolk, is the soil of Fleg hundred ; and much 

 in Blowfield and Walsham hundreds is of the same qua- 

 lity : it is a sandy loam, from two to three feet deep, and 

 much of it as good at bottom as on the surface ; of so 

 happy a texture, that almost any season suits it ; subjefl 

 neither to burn in droughts, nor to be wet witli incessant 

 rains. The basis moit general, is a clay marie ; but in 

 several distridls sand, both yellow and white. So fertile a 

 soil I have very rarely seen of so pnle a colour ; it is a 

 very light whitish brown in dry weather. The produ61s 

 are great : wheat from 6 to 14 combs; barley 9 to 16; 

 oats 10 to 24; pease to 15. Yet these produds do not 

 altogether announce the merits of the soil, which pcr- 

 liaps is marked more by paucity of failures than by extra- 

 ordinary crops. Ashby and Burgh were named to me 

 as having extraordinary land, and at the latter I found it 



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