Nottirighamsliire and Lincohishire in 1888 : Class 1. 513 
must be owing to the demands of miners and others who are not 
of any agricultural class. 
The following analysis shows the distribution of detached 
allotments according to size : — 
Number and Percentage of Allotments or Field Gardens of different 
sizes detached from Cottages, in Jtme, 1886. 
Counties 
Under J o£ 
an acre 
Of J acre 
and uniler 
i acre 
Of i acre 
and under 
1 aero 
Total 
Total acreage 
in all classes 
of holdings 
Percentage 
of total 
allotments 
in total 
acreage 
Lincoln . . . 
1,782 
3,766 
6,163 
11,710 
1,510,825 
•77 
Notts .... 
9,445 
3,751 
11,599 
14,795 
455,085 
3-25 
England . . . 
128,566 
116,487 
103,819 
348,872 
24,891,539 
1-40 
In all, 478 labourers have runs for a cow in Lincoln, but 
only 28 in Notts. Further particulars under this head will be 
given subsequently. 
Physical Aspects. — The fens and marshes of Lincolnshire, 
which comprise about one-third of its surface, are about as flat 
and level as the sea — an aspect dreary and depressing in the 
extreme to the unaccustomed eye of the average Briton, yet not, 
it is well to know, without power to kindle some of the finest 
imaginations. For the charms which have so unfortunately 
been hidden from common mortals have, happily, been revealed 
to a Tennyson and a Kingsley, who both actually sang the 
praises of these flat districts — the former finding rapturous 
similes between the glories of fen and sea. The area in question 
includes the whole south-eastern portion of the county, and a 
wide fringe of marsh skirting its eastern sea-board. It ex- 
tends also up into the centre of the county as far as the city 
of Lincoln, near which it is called the " Carr." On its eastern 
and western borders it is relieved by a double range of cal- 
careous hills, which, starting from the neighbourhood of Brigg, 
at the north of the county, for an apex, run down, the one in 
a south-easterly, the other in a south-westerly direction, so as 
to form two sides of a rather acute triangle enclosing the fens. 
From the moderate elevation of these hill-tops, the western 
range of which forms the magnificent site of the Cathedral of 
Lincoln, a sufiiciently extensive and interesting view may be 
had, over the gentle dip and rise of a fertile and varied land- 
scape, to redeem the county from unfair charges of universal 
flatness. 
The Rivers of Lincolnshire are somewhat insignificant, if we 
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