4 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

Moiſt Loame—on a wet, cold, clayey bottom, occupy 2 large portion of this county, being unſafe for ſheep, and unfic for turnips; rhey are principally employed in grow=-

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inz grain, rearing young cattle, and lambs.‘Chis ſoil prevails moſt in the middle and ſouth- Black Peat Earth—is the prevailing ſoil in moſt of the mountainous diſtricts, and is found in many places through the lower parts of te county. The aſpeât of this county, in reſped to ſurface, is mark- ed with great variety; LS the ſea-coaßt, it 1s nearly ; towards the middle, thé ſurface is more diverſified, and thrown into large ſwelling ridges, formed by the principal rivers:—Theſe parts are well incloſed; in ſome places enriched with wood and recent plantations, but the general appearance is deſtitute of thoſe orn2ments:— The weſtern par

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t(except a few intervening vales) is an extenſive ſcéne of e mountainous diftri(il, where the hand of Cultivation is rarely to be traced.

Qf the mountainous diſtricts, thoſe around Cheviot are the mot valuable; being in general fine green hills, thrown(by ſome of thoſe convulfive changes which this globe has at ſome time experienced) into numberleſs variety of forms; the verdant, ſwiit-Noping ſides of which, incloſe and ſhelter many deep, narrow glens: through the whole of this diſtri no mineral or other kind of ſtone is found, except brown, red, and grey whinftone: — they extend from the head of Coquet, down to Allen- ton; from thence northward to Prendwick, Branton, U- derton, Wooler, Kirknewton, and Mindrim, and occupy at leat an area of 900900 acres

The other mountainous diftriétslie chiefly on the weſtern part of ihe county, ſome of which adjoin the county of Durham; but the largeſt portion extends from the Ro- man Wall to the river Coguet(with a few intervening i incloíed