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EASTERN CHALK HILLS. 395

to be accounted for? Sheep are kept, in- discriminately, on both: and the plow is equally employed on each. See the Isie of THaneT,—the HiLzs of WILTSHIRE,&c.

In PRESENT PRODUCTIONS, this Division differs from the other two, chiefly, in its growing a much greater proportion of woop. A considerable share of the clayey lands, high-lying as they are, and resting on chalk, an absorbent base, are too wet, cold, and ungenial, for arable crops! being chiefly in a state of wood. On the Boxley and Detling hills, in the central part of Kent, there are tracts of woodland of very great extent: such as the Wilds of Kent and Sus- sex cannot equal. And even on the more habitable parts of West Kent and Surrey, woodlands prevail.

Nevertheless, much of the strong land, everywhere, jis kept under ARABLE CROPS: as are most of the chalky lands: with, how- ever, a small portion of perennial sHEEP WALK. But this, I believe, is on the de- ciine.

In the vallies, and about farm houses and villages, on the strong cool soils, there are OLD GRASS LANDS; but not in any great proportion. And, in Kent, Hops are more or less grown, on the hill lands.

On a high broad summit of the Surrey hills, there is a tract of HEATHLAND; greater