374 GRASS. 



levelling Inequalities, to the depth of five feet, to free the 

 land from water. Under-drained to a very great amount. 

 The soil moory, and under it a gravel ; part of it bog. 

 Some parts were so bad, iliat no stoek ever went upon it j 

 his predecessor let 15 acres for 5I. a year, clear of all 

 town charges, and at that rent they were flung up, and 

 let to another person at the same rent. At present tliese 

 worst parts graze bullocks well, and are very valuable 

 lands. These works, which were only preparatory to va- 

 rious other articles of good management, cost him, over a 

 large part of the tra6t, lol. an acre. It is no easy matter 

 to dwell sufficiently on exertions of this sort, in a county 

 "where they are so rare : the cfTorts of years, and the ex- 

 pense of tliousands to the improver, are dispatched in a 

 few lines — but lee those who best know the deficiency of 

 the county, estimate such works as they deserve, and hold 

 in due honour and veneration the men who have thus 

 laudably stepped beyond tlie common pra6tice. 



In these most meritoi ious works of this a6^ive farmer 

 he has but one defe6l ; a perennial brook runs through 

 his meadows, which he thinks erroneously would not be 

 beneficial in irrigation : this will be his next undertaking : 

 he will not continue to let it run waste. 



Mr. Palgrave, at Coltishai, improved some meadows 

 very capitally, by spreading sea-sand from Yarmouth, 

 which killed ail sedge and 1 ushcs, and brought up a fine 

 sheet of white clover. The soil boggy. In 1780 they 

 were valued at 7s. 6d. an acre, and lately by the same per- 

 son at 3I. 



Mr. Repton, at Oxnead, drained a large traft of 

 meadows, and did all they w-ould admit in good grass hus- 

 bandry, but a water-mill belonging to his landlord is a 

 nuisance to all such endeavours, and keeps the water so 

 high that all exertions arc vain : when will landlords have 



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