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this purpose as well as for sale; they are at about 
twenty yards deep, and the water is drawn by hand in 
buckets, or in some instances let off by head-ways 
drawn from a lower level. 
Hundred House to Stourport, light sandy soil, tur¬ 
nips, and Staffordshire ploughs. 
September 6, and 7, 1S05.—Examined the north¬ 
east of the county, between Alcester and Birmingham, 
and between Birmingham and Bromsgrove, and to 
Stourbridge ; this has no remarkable peculiarities ; the 
high gravelly or loamy soils bordering on the Lickey,^ 
on Clent, and Hagley Hills, are late in their produce, 
the harvest now in hand } country fairly cultivated 
both in corn and cattle, and some very respectable 
flocks of sheep ; nearer Stourbridge the land is sounder 
and better, and harvest earlier, being now finished \ 
but no hop yards, and few orchards, in this district. 
The Birmingham and Worcester canal is a good fea¬ 
ture of this end of the county, commencing upon a 
Severn barge scale, at the Wharf, Birmingham, upon a 
level with the colliery canal, and about 480 feet above 
the level of the tide; it passes through hills and over 
vallies, and enters Worcestershire near Selly Oak upon 
a high embankment, from thence passing through the 
parishes of Northfield, and King’s Norton, enters Alve- 
church upon the same level in the midst of a formidable 
tunnel of a mile in length, and continues towards Tar- 
debigg upon the same level ; but here its progress for 
the present stops, and the lockage of 4 j 0 feet to the 
Severn is not yet attempted. 
Oct. 8, Worcester to Croonne.—Hedges near Wor¬ 
cester hawthorn, smooth woods, bramble, and particu¬ 
larly the Burnet rose plant, (rosa spinosissima,) this 
plant I had never noticed before; Severn, with its 
beautiful 
