 | Great Britain. Board of Agriculture, Arthur Young - 1809 - 448 ページ
...acres : it is a very singular tract, nearly upon a dead level, surrounded on every side by high Innds. I searched and inquired for bog and peat, but have...would form most valuable farms, and be applicable cither to tillage or pasturage, were It drained ; but more adapted to the latter than the former. To... | |
 | William Humphrey Marshall - 1815 - 676 ページ
...Cambridgeshire, ensuing. POLITICAL ECONOMY. APPROPRIATION.— Cowmen*.— (Chapter "Wastes") — P. 227. " Except the two large tracts of Whichwoodf'orest and...there is no such thing upon it, or if there be, in a small proportion. The soil is generally a good loam, which would form most valuable farms, and be applicable... | |
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I could not have done but through his attention, who requested a farmer (Mr. Jones) who turns much stock on it, to conduct us in a little tour over the whole of it. Mr. Jones conceives it to equal the amount of four square miles, or 2560 acres : it is... 