14 WATER. 



At Waxham the soil is very fine. 



No clav for an under-stratum in Happing hundred, e:>c- 

 cept at Happsborough, Walcot, and Ra6lon ; generally 

 sand or brick earth. Here arc some of the finest lands in 

 the county — equal to Fleg, but stifFer ; yet the surface a 

 fine friable sandy loam, and the bottom not too retentive 

 of water. The best land in the Catfield distri6t Is at Stal- 

 ham and East Ruston. 



Happsborough, Walcot, and Bafton, again noted to 

 me as the finest soils, perhaps, in the county ; a rich, 

 deep, mellow, friable loam, on a clay loam bottom, some 

 on brick-earth and sand ; all good. East Ruston, very 

 good, deep, on brick -earth. 



Mr. Cubit, at Honing, has some very fine pale co- 

 loured sandy loam, resembling the Fleg soils, and worth 

 26s. an acre ; vet, intermixed, he has some hills of sand 

 and gravel of much inferioi value. 



MARSHLAND CLAY. 



The wliole distri(5l of marshland is probably a relicl or 

 deposition of the sea ; it is a silt, or warp clay of great 

 fertility, upon a sandy silt at various depths, but usually 

 eighteen inches or two feet. The stifFer clays are the 

 ■worst arable : the more mild and temperate ones, the best 

 and easiest worked of course ; but the strongest clay is the 

 best for grass. 



SECT. IV. WATER. 



Norfolk is advantageously situated respecting na- 

 vigation; for of its great circumference of 200 miles, 

 there are but something more than thirty, from I'hetford 



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