410 AGRICULTURE.

strong lands: while, in West Kent and Surrey, the soil is prepared for sowing, and the seed covered, with the ordinary plow and harrows; agreeably to the prevailing practice of the kingdom at large: there being, in the established practice of the western parts of these hills, no instance of cultivating, either corn, or even pulse, in rows.‘The bean and pea culture, of East and Middle Kent, may be said to be as little known, on the Hills of Surrey, as on the Wolds of Yorkshire.

In the HARVESTING of mown cory, the practice of Surrey differs, in like man- ner, from that of East Kent: each part falling in, with the practice of the vale countries, which border uponit. In Surrey, barley and oats are universally carried, im- mediately out of swath, without being tied up in bundles, and formed into piles, or shucks, as they are, in the East Kent prac- tice; and(which is highly interesting) as they are, in Devonshire and Cornwall; which are situated at an Opposite extreme of the Island: the intermediate space, of more than a hundred miles in extent, having no knowledge of the practice.

On the cuttuRE and MANAGEMENT of PARTICULAR CRops, upon these hills, little requires to be said; as they partake of the practices already described.