AGRICULTURE. 667

Those kept here are the Cambridgeshire sort. Much corn on crooked slips of land-in common field, through a ride of five or six miles; with- out the appearance of either a cottage or barn: so that the plough teams must have some miles to go to work; and the corn be carried a great way home in harvest. This is one among the numberless instances of the great advantages to be derived from a general inclosure bill,

The early sown slips of corn look well; but much charlock and other weeds: the latter sowing very bad. How- different would this country be, if cultivated as in Thanet! Arrive at Bygrave, a noble farm of about a thousand acres! The house and barns in the centre, on the flat top of a hill, sloping on all sides. Much poor land. The highest part, a very strong stiff cledge, much like the land on the highest hills of Kent; which is, in some parts, suc- cessfully managed-by a system of four courses: viz. fallow, wheat, beans, barley; and this would doubtless, under the same culture, ans swer very well. Drawing chalk here out of weils, sunk in different parts of a field, thirty or thirty five feet deep: the man who digs the chalk enlarges his circle as he descends; so that the pit, or well, when finished, forms the lower frustum of a cone. Sixty loads, of about 24 bushels each, are laid on an acre of land: the