16 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

This, when properly drained, and kept cleaned from weeds, and otherwiſe well managed in favourable ſeaſons, 1s excellent land, and produces good crops of wheat, beans, and canary; but is generally very expenhúve to keep 1n good order,

ISLE OF SHEBEY

Almoſt the whole of this iſle is a deep, frong, fuŒÆ clay. Some parts are ſo very ſticky in the winter time, that theplough wheels get loaded with dirt in one maſs, ſo as to form the ſhape of a grindftone, and are often overturned wuth the great weight of mould, colle&ed unegually upon the wheels; on which account foot- ploughs are ſometimes uſed, The horſes ſhoes are fre- quently torn off, by the hinder foot ftriking its ſhoe againſt the heel of the fore one, before it can diſen= gage itſelf from the ſoil. The beſt time to plough theſe ſoils, 1t is ſaid, is when they are thoroughly wet. Some of the upper parts of the iſland have a few gravelly fields; but thoſe are very wet in winter, and are rather fiff, The chief part of the upland paſture is a ſtiff clay, covered with ant-hillsz it is very wet in winter, ſubjed& to burn in a dry ſummer, and to ſplit open to a great depth. The ſoil of the marſhes is alſo a ſtiff clay underneath; originally a ſediment of the ſea, Its ſurface for an inch or two in depth 1s a vegetable mould, much enriched from the land having been thickly covered with ſheep for a long ſeries of years,

WEST: KENT.

The varieties of ſoil in this part are, 1. Chalk; 2. Loam;z 3: Clay 14. Gravelsys Sand 5 E Haſloek 7 Pinnoeks 9. Coomb; 9. Hazel Mould.

The chalky ſoils are found on the hides of hills, and at different