| Books - 1709 - 578 pages
...Chichester to Emsworth, north of the road, we meet with the same kind land for turnips and barley. ' The soil of the Weald is generally a very stiff loam...through the county in a north-west direction, the soil ii different. It is here either sandy loam upon a sandy grit-stone, or it is a very poor black vegetable... | |
| William Humphrey Marshall - 1817 - 750 pages
...lands of every description, from the most glutinous clay, to the loosest most barren sand. P. 8. " The soil of the Weald is generally a very stiff loam upon a brick clay bottom, and that again upon snndstone. Upon the range of bills running through the county in a north-west direction, the soil is... | |
| George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 364 pages
...inches in thickness, frequently intervenes between the upper soil and the gravel. The soil of the \VeaJd is generally a very stiff loam, upon a brick clay bottom, and that again upon a sand-stone ; upon the range of hills running through the county in a north-west direction the soil... | |
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