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Journal of the House of Lords
… Opinion of the Quality of the Land you refer to? It is a stiff intractable sour Clay, very expensive to cultivate, and …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of Soils. I suppose 2,000 Acres of the Parish is very stiff flinty Land. Is it your Opinion, that by the …
Journal of the House of Lords
… of Wilts, in the Year 1830. In the Down Field, which is stiff heavy Land. Tenants Names. Quantity of Land. Potatoes. …
Journal of the House of Lords
… be introduced with any Prospect of Advantage upon poor stiff Clay Lands? I think that in Proportion as the Land was …
Journal of the House of Lords
… not. [433] Is not a great deal of Land in Wargrave of a stiff and cold Nature? Very much so. Did you make any …
Journal of the House of Lords
… do not benefit the Labourer, for the Land in general is so stiff that it can be worked only with Horse Power. Are you … with Vegetables they do not want more; the Ground is too stiff to make it at all desirable. At the Rents those Persons … Labour in that District than in other Countries. It is a stiff cold Clay Soil? It is. You do not conceive that in your …
Journal of the House of Lords
… you much dry Land? No; it is flat and low, and wet and stiff. Therefore you would suffer more in wet Seasons than … a small Portion laid down, but not much. Your Land, being stiff Land, probably cannot be laid down without considerable …
Journal of the House of Lords
… Boggy light black Soil; the rest of my Land is very stiff Clay. Would the stiff Clay be equally applicable to the Purpose of Spade … the light Land to which you have alluded? I have some very stiff Land applied to that Purpose, and I hear no Complaints. …
Journal of the House of Lords
… back, Holloway, 45. - Land in, is flat, low, wet, and stiff, Holloway, 46. - Permanent Overseer of, Holloway, 39. - …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… or waste. The soil is variable, some parts good, and some stiff clay; the surface is undulated, and the scenery …