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excellent. Mr. James Wigg's is famous land, and his 

 wheat this year great. 



Mr. Brown, of Thrigby, remarked tome a circum- 

 stance which well deserves noting ; that at Ashby, Billaby, 

 and Burgh, is land that, before marling, ran uncommonly 

 to white clover; but after being marled from Thorpe and 

 Wightlingham, will do it no longer, none coming at 

 present without sowing. 



At the Burlinghams and Linwood there is capital land. 



Some of the finest land in Norfolk is at Acle, Moul- 

 ton, Tunstal, and South Walsham ; the crops of wheat 

 ■were, in 1789, estimated, on an average of years, at ten 

 combs an acre on their good land ; they have, however, 

 some that does not produce above six. At Mawby, near 

 Castor, the average of the parish, for ten years to- 

 gether, ten combs : twelve, and even fifteen, have been 

 had; but in 1802, they did not admit crops equal to 

 these. 



I examined with pleasure the fine lonms near tlie respec- 

 tive houses of Mr. Everitt, of Caistor, and Mr. Fer- 

 RABY, of Hemsby, which class amongst the finest soils in 

 Fleg ; it ought to 'be termed a rich sandy loam ; dry 

 enough for feeding turnips, and rich enough for five or 

 six quarters of wheat ; equal to great crops of cabbage, 

 beans, or any other produ6lion. 



Southwood, Moulton, Lippenhoe, and Rudham, class 

 high among the fertile parishes. 



At Martham, much of the land is on a sand bottom, 

 and some gravelly spots subjcdl to scaidy but towards the 

 fens, brick earth. 



At Catfield, &:c. a pale, fine, sandy, loam, upon a sand 

 bottom, esteemed tliin skinned, but I found it to the eye 

 the same, at a foot and eighteen inclies deep. 



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