6 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

Lime—is made of a weak kind, for land at Kirkby, Skeg- by, Mansfield Wood-House, and Warsop, of a better more soapy kind at Hucknall. On Beacon Hill near Newark, of a good kind, from a blue stone.

At Linby is exceeding good lime for building.

Gypsum or Plaster—is got of an excellent kind, on Bea- con Hill near Newark, and much used for plaster floors.— A good deal of it is sent to London in lumps for the colour- amen, and of the white, ground, in hogsheads, for other uses. At Red Hill, at the junction of Trent and Soar}. is-a fine plaster quarry, from which Mr. Pelham, of Brocklesby in Lincolnshire, now Lord Yarborough, had columns of twenty feet high, in three pieces, used in his mausoleum. Lord Scarsdale also used the same in his house at Kedleston.

Plaster is found alsoat G. Markham, and the Wheatleys, and in many other places, amongst the red loam; but I do not know of its being got for sale any where else than near Newark and at Red Hill.

Mar!l—Marling land is not used in this county, nor do I know of any marl pit opened; though there is reason to believe that there is much of it in the clay soil, as a red crumbling stone, and a blueish, are both found at Halam, Kirklington, Oxton, Gedling, and in many other places; effervesce strongly with the vitriolic acid, and if found in sufficient mass, there can be no doubt of the improvement of land from the use of it. The blue is in narrower veins than the red, and has a smell of sulphur when the acid makes it work.

N.B. Lam since informed that Mr. Green of Bankwood, has lately found good marl on his farm at Saxendale in the Trent bank diftii€ty and is now beginning to lay it on his grass lands.

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