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OF KENT, 9

of Surrey, is an incloſed country, with much gentle hill and dale, the hulls ſhelving in almoſt every direétion, with ſeveral varieties of the ragſtone ſoils, This part produces great quantities of hops and fruit, with ſome corn and graſs; alſo timber and underwood, and has many pieces of common and waſte land*,

The upper part, or weſt end, of this diſtri, is alſo much 1ncloſed with many coppices of timber and under- wood: great part of the latter goes to the metropolis, in different kinds of faggots. The corn and hay that are not conſumed in the neighbourhood, go likewiſe for the moß part to London.

The Weald. This diſtri& of the county was in ancient times an immenſe wood or foreſt, inhabited only by herds of deer and hogs, and belonged wholly to the King. By degrees it became peopled, and interſperſed with villages and towns; and by piece-meal, was for the moſt part cleared of its wood, and converted into tillage and paſture. There are, however, ſome woodlands Kill in their original ftate.

The reputed boundary of the Weald begins at the margin of Romney Maríh, and runs along the top of the Ragfſtone-hill, above the churches of Kingſnorth, Great Chart, Pluckley, Sutton, Linton, Hunton, Valden, acroſs the Medway by Tefſton and Wateringbury, From thence it proceeds by Hert's Hill, River-Hill, Idle-Hill, to Welleftreet, on the borders of Surrey, and then 1n umion with the boundary lines of the county of Suſſex, taking in the Iſle of Oxnecy, goes on to Apledore and the borders of Romney Marſh. It is ſomewhat remark-

*# The inhabitants divide the county into three parts, Eaſt, Middle, and Weſt Kent: and, according to the ancient provincial adage, Weſt Kent 1s healthy, but not wealthy; Eaſt Kent is wealthy, but not healthy 5 but Middle Kent 1s borh healthy and wealthy.

Note èy a Middle Kent Farmer.

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