ſowed as late as the middle of June; it muſt follow, that an improved drainage will neceſſarily bring about a great increaſe of rent, even in the cultivated parts; and more eſpecially, as the advantage of applying a great part to the breeding of ſheep and other cattle, is pretty well under- ſtood, and generally practiſed.

2. Ihe SKIRIY LELANDS.

We come now to ſpeak of a-kind of land, that appears peculiar to thoſe counties which border on the fens; and: this may very properly be confidered, as an almoſt imper- ceptible link, in the great chain of Nature, holding toge- ther two diſtinct and different ſorts of ſoil.—lt is neither moor, clay, gravel, nor loom; but partaking of the pro-

perties of moor, and whatever ſoil is ſevered from the fens,

by that we are now ſpeaking of. In the diviſion of the fens into diſtricts, for the purpoſe of draining them by, engines, a great deal of this has been neceffarily included within the banks, and is, generally ſpeaking, rich, grazing land, the furface of which being confiderably higher, than that of the fen, properly ſo called, it is out of the reach of floods, and is liable to be moſt damaged by being too much drained. But the generality of this land, is not in- cluded in the drainages above referred to; and this is pre- ciſely that fort of property, which is more annoyed than

any other, by having the waters from the lower lands forced over its ſurface, by means of mechanical inventions,

and which therefore, in its preſent ſtate, is of little or no value. I preſume there may be about 5000 acres of this fort of

land in the county of Huntingdon, which are certainly a-

ſtriking object for improvement.

3. MADOW

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