AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

SECT. II].—cLiMATE. Being situated between fifty-two deg. fifty min. and fifty-three deg. thirty-four min. north latitude, it may be supposed to be later in its harvests than the more southern

counties. There is however an exception to this with.

regard to oats and rye, which, in the warm gravels about Newark, are as early.as in most counties, being often brought to Newark market before the first of August. The seed time and harvest may in general be stated as follows:.. Wheat seed time, fromthe latter end of Sep- tember to the beginning of November, and often later; spring seed time, from the beginning of March to the be- ginning of May; turnips, from the middle of June to the latter end of July, hay harvest, from the middle of July to the middie of August; corn harvest, from the beginning of August to the latter end of September. The only parti- cular circumstance that seems to deserve notice in the climate, is its dryness.* From my own observation, and that of many experienced persons| have consulted, I have reason to conclude, that much less rain falls in this county, than in the neighbouring ones to the west and north, which may perhaps be naturally accounted for by the clouds from the western ocean breaking upon the hills of Derbyshire and Yorkshire, and exhausting themselves before they reach Nottinghamshire; and even those from the German ocean may be supposed not unfrequently to skim over this more level country, and break first on the hills before men- tioned:. the greatest rains are observed to come with east- erly winds.‘The drought of the summer 1793 was par-

ticulary experienced in this county.

SECT. IV.—so1L AND SURFACE.

‘The surface of this county, except the level through which the Trent runs, is uneven, and may perhaps be said

® Vid. Appendix No. I, and compare with the Staffordshire Report.

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