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« ally in the low land marſhy parts, where the inhabit « ants are few indeed, and confift chiefly of cookers.

« The garriſon and dock of Sheernefſs, its environs, ée and town of Queenborough, the reader, however, will «e except from this obſervation; where there are many é gentlemen of property and ſubſtance conftantly refſi- e dent,” Hafted’s Kent.

The cliffs on the north fide of this iſland belong to the three manors of Minfter, Shurland, and Warden; he owners of which let them out to the proprietors of the copperas works, who employ the neighbouring poor to colle& the pyrites, or copperas ſtones from the ſhores and which they dépoßt in heaps on the cliff, at the rate of one ſhilling per buſhel for their labour, until a ſufficient quantity is procured to load a veſſel, to take it away. The liberty of colle&ing the copperas on the ſea- ſhore, is let by the lords of the manors for ſixty pounds per annum.

The weſtern part of this county conſiſts of a great va=- riety of ſoils and ſyſtems of management. It is much more incloſed than the eaſtern part, and produces more timber and underwood.

The beft cultivated is the north fide of the diftri&, from Rainham to Dartford: a tra of five or ſix miles in breadth. Parallel to this is a ſpace of like breadth, of exceeding cold, ſ&iff, flinty clay, which is generally“ ploughed with ſix horſes: this is the flat top of the chalk- hill that runs from the ſeca, by Folkftone, through the county, to the borders of Surrey, near Weſterham, The ſoil of this ſlip of land is nearly alike, and 1s but of ſmall value, on account of the great expence of cultivation.

It is the higheſt land in the county, and 1s, from thence, by ſome called The Hog’s Back of Kent. Be- tween this hill and the borders of the Weald and county

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