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it may perhaps away. ay, For remarks and additional à wWere—— ehe obſervations.. that. „* 8. 5 Preliminary remarts.—* The greater part of the cultivated ut chat... 1 land in this county, as has been already remarked, is n, per-. 2]* occupied in graſs, gardening, pleaſure-grounds, and nurſe- ed, that 3. 14... 3 . ries. In the more immediate vicinity of London you find OlI pre-—— P almoſt nothing elſe; by which means, the obſervations, Ime..— 1 0f in a ſurvey of this kind, are much more limited, and 1 ⸗.— 1. MI leſs various, than in a county, where the operations of the plough, can be traced, into all the different ſyſtems of be re- huſbandry, practiſed by the intelligent and experienced ood of farmer; or, where every different ſpecies of ſtock has lat mi. been brought to any confiderable degree of perfection. which roceed* The following account of the ſoil and fertility of Middleſex, extracted be en- from Norden's Speculum Britanniæ(written in the reign of Queen Elizabeth), fu may amuſe the reader, who wiſhes to compare ancient and modern times: oi tht**The ſoil of Middleſex is excellent, fat and fertile, and full of profite: it , will** yeeldeth corne and graine, not onelie in aboundance, but moſt excellent good At a ⁵ wheate, eſpsciallie about Heſton, which place may be called Granarium tritici Pro*³⁴regalis, for the ſingularitie of the corne. The vaine of this eſpeciall corn 3) ¹ ſeemeth to extend from Heſton to Harrow on the Hill, betweene which, as a in the midway, is Perivale, more truely Purivale,&c.&c.— Yet doth not this zill be 44 ſo fruitefull ſoyle yeeld comfort to the wayfairing man in the winter time, „ and« by reaſon of the claieſh nature of the ſoyle: which, after it hath taſted the . 1 ¹so autumne ſhowers, waxeth both dyrtie and deep: but unto the countrie ſwaine, inally ¹s it is a fweet and pleaſant garden, in regard to his hope of future profite, for, ledge, The deepe and dirtie loathſome ſoyle of we 4 Neslds golden gaine, to painefal toyle.“. e been The induſtrious and painefull hufbandman will refaſe a pallace to droyle ia. ¹4 theſe golden puddles.“ Fool, The wheat of Heſton was ſo famous, that Queen Elizabeth, as is reported, called bad the moft part of her proviſion from that place, for manchat for her High- 3 , in neſſes own diet. d P The the in⸗ 2.

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