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they are negleiSled, and tlierefore only 20s. At Surling- 

 ham are boggy marshes, and to Buckcnham ferry, Rock- 

 land and Caucley, they are in a bad state, wanting much 

 improvement, by draining and embanking, and clearing 

 from rubbish ; these are not more that 8s. an acre. To 

 Reedham better, and let at 20s. At Langley there are 

 600 acres newly enclosed, let at 12s. but will soon, from 

 the improvements introducing by Mr. Eurton, steward 

 to Sir Thomas Beauchamp Proctor, be much ad- 

 vanced. A circumstaiicc not uncommon was found here : 

 a great range of marsh, but with no safe means of com- 

 munication with it. Mr. Burton made a solid road 

 banked and gravelled, above half a mile long, so traced as 

 to communicate with all Sir Thomas Beauchamf's 

 allotment : a great and most useful work, equally well 

 imagined and executed. Five miles of banking against the 

 river, 6cc. are also made ; part drained by mills, and part 

 by sluices. From Langley to Yarmouth the marshes are 

 good ; all 20s. and upwards, and some to 30s. 



At Davvling and Gestwick Colonel Buller has from 

 7 to 800 acres of pasture, which he esteems worth 30s. 

 an acre, but let at about 20s. Some is let by Mr. Couss- 

 maker, a relation of the writer,'at 30s. to 36s. 



At Tasbo rough, between Wymondham and Stralton, 

 some very fine well-drained meadows, with a fertile as- 

 pe61. 



Mr. Johnson, of Thurning, classes with the very few 

 in Norfolk, that have made any considembje exertions in 

 the improvement of permanent grass ; he has converted 

 200 acres, which were rough, moory, and of small value, 

 into a tra£l which does credit to his husbandry. ' He cut 

 off the springs which poisoned them from the adjoining 

 hills, by outside fences, aiSling as drains, which worked 

 avast improvement: moved great quantities of eaith in 

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