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YI. Improvements still requtred, particttlarlt in TnE North ; 
Steam-Cultivation, Rotations, Water-Cresses, Farmyard- 
Dung to Wheat-Crop, Chalking, Implements, Buildings, 
Cottages, Tenancies, Arterial Drainage, Enclosures, New 
Forest Improvement 316 
VII. Brief History of the New Forest, and Description of any 
Peculiar Customs connected with it ; Demesne and Prero- 
gative Forests, Acreage and Boundaries of the Forest, 
Government, Rights or Interests, Statistics, Finance .. 331 
APPENDIX. 
1. Meteorology, observations at Aldershot, Eling, and Gosport .. .. 340 
2. Broadlands Drainacce, Mr. Bailey Denton's description 344 
3. Lord Palmerston's Letter 346 
CONTENTS OF THE ISLAND. 
Area, Population, Poor-Law Relief 348 
I. Principal Geological and Physical Features : South, North, 
River-Basins, North- Western and North-Eastern Valleys 348 
II. Nature of Soils, Character of Farming, Improvements re- 
quired .. 353 
(I.) Southern chalk district, from Shanklin to Shorwell .. 353 
(II.) " The Bowl of the Island " 354 
(III.) Soiith-wcstem district, about Brook 355 
(IV.) South generally 355 
(V.) Northern eocene districts, east and west of Medina, 
north generally ; characteristic farms. Prince Consort's, 
Mr. Young's, the late Sir Richard Simeon's, Mr. 
Hughes' 356 
(VI.) Observations on the whole Island 367 
(VII.) Improvements required : Agricultural Society, steam- 
ploughing, relief of poor, management of highwaj's .. 369 
