APPENDIX. 
SIS 
■county out of Shropshire to below Powick, where it 
joins the Severn is upwards of twenty miles, breadth 
in the upper part a quarter to half a mile, but in the 
lower part more; its Course downwards is between 
south and east, with a great variety of windings; it 
consists of hop yards, orchards, grass land, and corn; 
the river Teme, which winds through it in all dii-ee- 
tions, being generally hid and enveloped in willow 
plantations, the willows sometimes lopped into pollards; 
in other places at whole length and of vigourous 
growth. 
Pass Lyndridge ; hop yards numerous in sight of the 
road, hop plants sometimes clumped round, but oftener 
in ridges; some instances of foul hop yards, which are 
very unsightly; weeds in those cases, wild mustard, 
groundsel, chickweed, thistle, and were more neglected 
grasses; more instances of potatoes cultivated between 
the rows of hops ; winter vetches sown in this vale, and 
now above ground. A large and commodious inn, 
called the Hundred House, built by Lord Foley, be¬ 
tween the Abberley and Whitley Hills, is a great ac¬ 
commodation to travellers. 
October 5 .—Examined the Abberley Hill, which is of 
considerable elevation; country round a coldish clay or 
loam, but fruit trees growing to the foot of the. decli¬ 
vities; hill itself, a lightish soil, on loose stone brush 
(breccia); rabbits burrow on the south side amonyst 
fern; furze on the summit, but good sound sheep 
■walk; plantation on part of the declivities. 
The Whitley Hills consist of a cold clay loam on 
limestone, but carrying a good turf of grass; limestone 
is raised and burnt here in several kilns, some slight 
seams of coal having been found in the neighbourhood, 
of two feet or thirty inches thick, which are worked for 
this 
