 | Books - 1709 - 578 pages
...ten inches in depth, and the chalk hardish and broken, and mixed with loam in the interstices, to the depth of some feet, which must make it admirable land for sainfoin. 4 West of the river Arun, the, soil above the chalk is very gravelly, intermixed with large flints.... | |
 | John Wedge, Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - Agriculture - 1794 - 586 pages
...bottom is every where a furface of very good depth for ploughing. Weft of the river Arun, the foil above the chalk is very gravelly, intermixed with large flints. Between the rivers Adur ami Oufc, a fubftitvim or* reddifh fand is found, covered by a flinty fuifarc. The iiiual depth of... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1813 - 1036 pages
...deeper staple, and at the bottom the surface is every -where of sufficient depth for ploughing. Westward of the river Arun, the soil above the chalk is very...with large flints. Between the rivers Adur and Ouse is found a substratum of reddish sand, covered by a flinty surface. The depth of the soil above the... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 364 pages
...every where a surface of very good depth for ploughiag. West of the river Arun, the soil above thu chalk is very gravelly, intermixed with large flints....rivers Adur and Ouse, a substratum of reddish sand is found, covered by a flinty surface. The usual depth of the soil above the chalk varies in almost every... | |
 | Thomas Allen - Surrey (England) - 1829 - 524 pages
...deeper staple, and at the bottom the surface is every where of sufficient depth for ploughing. Westward of the river Arun, the soil above the chalk is very...gravelly, intermixed with large flints. Between the rivers of Adur and Ouse, is found a substratum of reddish sand, covered by a flinty surface. The depth of... | |
 | England - 1840 - 256 pages
...chalk substratum is here broken and mixed with loam in the interstices to the depth of several feet. West of the river Arun the soil above the chalk is...gravelly, intermixed with large flints. Between the Adur and the Ouse the substratum is of reddish sand, and the soil varies in depth from an inch to a... | |
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... spontaneously grows. Advancing down the hills, the soil becomes of a deeper staple, and at the bottom is every where a surface of very good depth for ploughing. Here the loam is excellent, nine or ten inches in depth, and the chalk... 