3 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY

Clent and Barbeacon, besides many others of less elevation, as the high grounds on Cannock Heath, the hills of Bush- bury and Essington, formed chiefly of, or at least containing great quantities of gravel, Kinfare Edge, Tettenhall Wood, and some situations near Enville, also command extensive|

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prospects. In this place it may not be improper(as it will not take up much room) to state a few particulars of a sub- ject doubtless curious; and which, though not immediately connected, is yet not altogether foreign to the business in hand. These particulars are, the perpendicular elevation of some of the high summits, medium plains, and lowlands, of this in- land county above the level of the tide of the ocean; the writer of this having had many opportunities of ascertaining these particulars, in many Cases very accurately, and in others nearly. The lowest points of land in the county are, pro- bably, the Severn at Over Areley, and the Trent where it receives the Dove below Burton.

Elevation of Sundry Points of Land in this county, perpen- dicularly above the Level of the Tide of the Thames at

Brentford. PARTICULAR SPOTS. ELEVATION. Ft. In. Banks of the Severn at Over Areley, 60

° —of the Tame at Tamworth, I50 0

——— of the. Trent at its junction with the Dove, 100 0

———— of the summit of the Staffordshire Canal, 385 o

——— of the summit of the Birmingham Canal, 500 o

— of the summit of the Wyrley Canal, at Es-

sington Wood New Colliery, 560

fe) Summit of Bushbury Hill, 650 o

of Barr-beacon, 7150. 0

— of the highest peak of Rowley Hills, goo 0

of the Grand Trunk Canal, 420.0

———— of a hill called Bunster, near Ilam, in the

Moorlands, 1200 0

———-— of Wever Hills, and some other of the)

highest peaks in the Moorlands, 1500 6