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the tor ure has es past vith re- t Kent, lely ya ed fom asttik- st and rowth,

EASTERN CHALK:= HILLS. 405 or owes its rise to local circumstancés, which do not, at present, exist.| The practice of the VaLe of G1 OCESTER, I have conceived to be of monastic rise;* and, in comparing the methods of harvest- ing beans, in GLocEsTERSHIRE, and the Districr of MaIpsToneg, it seemed to me probable, that they have both had the same origin.-- And it appears te be equally probable, that other points of the Kentish practice, and the various implements that are peculiar to it, may either have been in- vented by the clergy, or the lay officers of the church, who turned their attentions to rural€oncerns; or have been introduced, from time to time, by those who have been resident on the Continent; or by foreigners residing within the metropolitan diocese."

THE TURNWREST PLOW is common to these hills. But, in Surrey, it is confined to the hill lands; the lower skirts, on either side, being plowed with swing, and one- wheel plows, in use on the vale lands adja- cent: while, in Kent, the turnwrest pre- vails, on every soil and surface, to within a few miles of London.

Beside the good properties, already al- lawed this extraordinary implement, an-

* See GLOCESTERSHIRE, VOL. I. page 196. t See Vou. I. page 130.