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General View Of The Agriculture Of The County Of Huntingdon : And Observations On The Means Of Its Improvement : With An Appendix Containing An Account Of The Advantages To Be Derived From An Improved Outfal At The Port Of Lynn : And Answers To The Objections Which It Is Supposed Will Be Urged Against That Measure / Drawn Up For The Consideration Of The Board Of Agriculture And Internal Improvement ; By George Maxwell, Of Fletton, Near Stilton
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1. 1 N I R 0 D U CITION.

Soil./„HE county of Huntingdon poſſeſſes ſeveral diſ-

tinct ſorts of ſoil, viz. 1. Fens or Moor; 2. Skirty Land; 3. Meadow Land; 4. Strong deep ſtapled ſoil, either confiſting of clay, or of gravel, with a mixture of loom; and, 5. Thin ſtapled light clay.

Climate.— The climate, on the whole, is pretty healthy, confidering that all the Eaſt or North-eaſt part of the county is ſkirted by the fens, and that but a ſmall part of it is well ſupplied with water, either from ſprings or rivers.

State of property, Sc.— The old incloſed part is, generally ſpeaking, in the hands of large proprietors; but property in the new incloſures, and the open fields, is pretty much diffuſfed. There are many, of what may be called large farms, in the incloſed part of the county, viz. from. 200. up to. 500. per annum. In the open fields the farms are moſtly under H. 150. and down to. 5O0. per annum.

As to the mode in which the land is now cultivated, we fhall take them in the order above-mentioned.

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For remarks and additional obſervations.

 
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