4 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

and a half; in others, three, four, and five miles wide; and

is mostly inclosed.

The tongue of land east of Trent, is of a sandy soil, in some parts rather better than others, but in general very poor. A great part of it is taken up by low moors, much flooded by rains.

The clay country of Nottinghamshire may properly enough be divided into

I. The clay north of Trent, consisting of the north and south clay divisions, and the hundred of Thurgarton.

Il. South of Trent, comprehending 1. The Vale of

Belvoir. 2. The Nottinghamshire W oulds. [must observe that the clays north of Trent,are in general not of so tenacious a nature, as in many counties, being more friable, from containing a portion of sand and falling more readily by the weather; particularly the red clay, of which there is a great deal in the country round Tuxford, and in the hundred of Thurgarton, which might perhaps be more properly called a clayey loam, and a blackish clay soil, commonly called a woodland soil, in which there is plainly a mixture of sand.

The Vale of Belvoir having no precise known bounda- ries, as soil with me is the chief distin€tion, I shall call by that name the country lying between the hills called the Nottinghamshire Woulds, and the strip of land running along the Trent on which stand the towns of East Bridge- ford, Kneeton, Flintham, and Stoke; which, though not on the same level with the rest of the Trent bank land, is of a mellow mixed soil which will bear the same cultivation, quite different from what I term the Vale. The soil of this latter is generally a clay or loam.

THE NOTTINGHAMSHIRE WOULDS

Are a range of high bleak country; the townships are some open, some inclosed, as in Appendix, No. VII. The soil is generally a cold clay.