... distance into the vale, before it meets the clay. The soil of this narrow slip is an excessively stiff calcareous loam on a clay bottom: it adheres so much to the share, and is so very difficult to plough, that it is not an unusual sight to observe... General View of the Agriculture of the County of Sussex - Page viby Board of Agriculture (Great Britain) - 1808 - 473 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Humphrey Marshall - 1817 - 750 pages
...very rich and stiff arable land, but of very inconsiderable breadth : it runs for some distance into the vale, before it meets the clay. The soil of this...to the share, and is so very difficult to plough, tbat it is not an unusual sight to observe ten or a dozen stout oxen, and sometimes more, at work upon... | |
| George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 364 pages
...rich and stiff arable, but of very inconsider-. able breadth : it runs from one to three miles into the vale before it meets the clay. The soil of this narrow slip is a very stiff calcareous loam, on the bottom of a clay : it adheres so much to the share, and is so... | |
| James Buckman - Geology - 1852 - 60 pages
...the same length, is a slip of very rich and stiff arable land, but of very inconsiderable breadth. The soil of this narrow slip is an excessively stiff calcareous loam, on a clay bottom ; it Well characterised by its peculiar colour and cherty fossils, the shelly matter being often entirely... | |
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