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ther chufe to ftay where they are, than pafs through it .* which is 
all concerning the mntv ProfpeSi of the Rock ; what remains being 
only a reprefentationof the Arch of ftone vp w built over it, with 
two Niches xy one of each fidejand the^r^3!/e :^at the top, through 
which they look down out of the Banqueting-roovi into the Grot. 
Of which no more, but that behind the Rock there is a Cellar for 
•keeping Liquors cool, or ^hcmg Mufick, tofurprife the Auditors ; 
and behind that the Receivers of water to fupply the Pipes ^ isrc, 
5^. To thefe fucceed the Arts relating to Earths^ which either 
refpeft the 7/7/<7^e, oy Formation oi them. How many forts of 
Soils I met with in Oxfordfiire^ z/i^. Clay^ Chalky and others from 
their different mixtures C2\hd Maum^Red-land^Sour-ground^ Stone- 
lraJh^Stony^Sandy^2in& Gravelly^wete enumerated amongft Earths^ 
Chap. 3. It remains that we here give a particular account, by 
what Arts they are tilled to the beft advantage. And firft of 
Clay, 
57, Which if kind for ^/jf^/, as moft of it is, hath its firft 
tillage about the beginning of May ; or as foonas BarljSez(on 
is over, and is called the which they fomtimes make by 
a cafiitig tilths i. e. beginning at the out fides of the Ldnds^ and 
laying the Earths from the ridge2.i the top. After this, fome (liort 
time before the fecond tilth^ which they call Jlirring^ which is 
ufually performed about the latter end of June^ or beginning of 
Jidy^ they give this Land its manure ; w^hich if Horft-dung or 
Sheeps-dung^ or any other from the Home-Jlall-, or from the Mixen 
in the Field, is brought and fpread on the Land ;uft before this 
/e£:Wploughing : But if k he folded (which is an eKcellent 7??^- 
;z//re for this Land, and feldom fails fending a Crop accordingly 
if the Landhcin tillage^ they doit either in Winter before the 
fallovp, or in Summer after it h fallowed. And thefe are the manures 
I of Clay Land in the greatefi: part of Oxford-Jhire^ only in and 
near the Chiltern ; where befide thefe, it ts much enriched by at 
foft mellow Chalk that they dig from underneath it : when it is 
fiirred it lies again till the time of fowing Wheat, except in a moiH 
dripping je^r, when runing to //?i/?/f5 and other iref^/^, theyfom<- 
I times give it z Second ftirring, before the lafi for fowing. 
5 8. All which tillages they are very careful to give it as dry as 
may be, ridging it up twice or thrice for every ca fling tilth (/. e. in 
their flir ring, and for filing, beginning at the top of the Land 
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