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1803]+ Agricultural Chorography of Ensland. 159

which is not in fine tilth. The plough, the harrows, and the roller, must be Successively employed to reduce the clods of rough land, oinerwise the farmer will be wholly dieappointed. Wethink itextremely waterial to revive this circumstance in the recol!?ection of the reader, because from the use of the machine on land wholly unfit for its reception, the most unjust preJjudices have been iormed against it in various parts of the kingdom. Y/ucen it is employed on a Soil adapted to it'by a discreet and diligent person capable ofconducting'it, we have 10 hesitation indeclarning it to be not ouly he most beautiiul, buttbe most use'ul 5ysteim of machinery, that ever was applied in tillage, and iFit were universally resorted to throughout the kingdom, the produce of the country would be increased be- yond even.the extravagant hopes oi modern calculators.

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AGRICULTURAL CHOROGRAPHY OF ENGLAND. To the Editor of the Agricultural ILagazine.

EU SiR, YN X I HILE Someof your Correspondents are enriching the |' 3:|; j S T pages oft your work with obzervations on distinet coun-

tics, pariShes, or farms; it may not, perbaps, be uninteresting 10 Suine of vour readers who are attached to general and com- prehensive views, to attend to a few particulars which are cou- nected with what may be called the agricultural chorography ol England.

Tne western cvast, through the whole extent of it partakes 0! we rocky character. The eastern from the north of the Thames to Scarborough, has uniformly low fat Sbores.-- Vrom, Scarborough to the Tweed the coast is a medinm betweeu the mountainous character and the flat eastern Coast below it."Lhe whole of the Southern coast from North Foreland to the extremity of Cornwall, is Similar to that 1 bave just descirbed, varyivg between the flat and the moun-, talnous,

'Lbe Southern counties in the interior have an irregular Superficies of hill and dale, while the western asS5ume the mouun- tainous character. ie

"The midland and eastern counties have 5carcely a hill*ill we ariive at the centre ofthe Kingdom, where we See a few 1n- Sülated mountains, that appear the artificial production of Some Britsh Litans, from their incongruity with the couutry by which they are encompassed.

Proceeding nporthward, with Derbyshire, the mountainous character begins. Here a chain ot clevations/takes a north west direction, which dividing Lancashire and Yorksbire, euters Westworland, where thie mountains fil be whole of wr Pp10=