Nottinghamshire and LinHohishii'e in 1888: Class 1. 529 
sitlon. The swede turnips seemed to be in little favour anywhere 
in the county, except perhaps on some Heath farms, and very 
often the pains and expense taken to grow them there, and to 
preserve them from frost afterwards, are not such as to suggest 
a full appreciation of their value. It will scarcely be denied 
that the swede is far more nutritious than the white turnip, 
that its keeping qualities are also better, and that in most places 
greater weights per acre of it may be grown. Most farmers also 
will probably allow that swedes are a better preparation for barley 
than other turnips, although this experience is not always ad- 
mitted in Lincoln. Perhaps it may be added, too, that the 
answers to our repeated inquiries why swedes were not grown 
were sometimes considered a little unsatisfying. At the same 
time it is not at all doubted that there are some lands, notably 
the thin clays bordering the Wolds, which will not grow swedes 
at all satisfactorily. 
Nottinghamshire. 
The county of Nottingham runs alongside of Lincolnshire 
for the greater part of the length of both counties. The former, 
however, is very narrow, and contains in total area only 
520,176 acres, 13,000 of which are waste, or nncropped land. 
The population, as shown in the table already given, though 
much denser per square acre than that of Lincoln, is about the 
same as that of England generally. 
Physical Aspects. — The surface o^ Notts is nowhere broken 
into hills of such ambitious proportions as that of its neighbours, 
Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Its slight elevations are, however, 
patched with abundant foliage and picturesque villages, and 
intersected by several rich and pretty river valleys — the average 
characteristics, in fact, of our much-prized English scenery. 
Such hills as there are run, like those of Lincolnshire, from north 
to south. They are in fact, and speaking now geologically, a 
continuation of those sections of stratified rocks, which begin- 
ning at the eastern boundaries of Lincoln succeed each other 
through both the counties. Notts, therefore, being a narrow 
county, when measured across it from east to west, the condi- 
tions are clearly not favourable to a great variety of rock forma- 
tions. There are Coal-measures in the south-west portion of the 
county, and these are its oldest deposits. This district, with a 
part of Yorkshire and Derbyshire adjoining it, form altogether 
the most extensive coal-field in England. The Magnesian Lime- 
stone is met with in a long narrow stripe at the west of the 
county, and above this are the marls and limestones. But the 
geological formation most common to the couaty is the NewKed 
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