20 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

by marl and lime. The little there is of this ſoil in the diftri&, produces turnips, barley, clover, and wheat, and the ſubſoil is the ſoft ſandſtone.

The ragfſtone gravel 1s found only in ſmall patches; and 1s of little value in its preſent ſtate, being covered with furze, heath, and broom.

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ROMNEY MARSH.

Almoſt the whole ſurface of this ſpacious level of fine marſh-land, is the ſediment of the ſea. It confiſts chiefly of a ſoft loam and clay, with a greater or a leſs mixture of ſea-ſand; there are, however, near the ſea-ſhore, ſome ſmall tras of blowing ſand, and ſome ſea-beach, which are of very little value,

The principal part of the ſoil being a fine ſoft loam, with a mixture of ſea-ſand, and having lain time out of mind in graſs, covered with ſheep in winter and ſummer, its turf is wonderfully thick and fine; and the graſs 1t produces 1s of a fattening quality, equal, if not ſuperior, to any in the kingdom. The other parts, which are in- ferior, are thoſe which have a leſs portion of ſca-ſand, and are a füff clay; or thoſe which have too much ſand, or gravel, and are in conſequence apt to burn in dry ſummers; and theſe are the lands which are uſed as breeding grounds.

The ſubſo1l 1s frequently ſeen in alternate layers of clay and ſand, and ſometimes beach and ſand,

SECT. VV.— Mixtrals,

Ï cannot give a better account of this ſubjeét than by copying the words of the very ingenious hiſtorian* of

* Edward Haſted, Eſq. tis

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