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fruitfull ground is within a foot or lesse of the gravell.
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The soil of Christian Malford, a parish adjoyning to Sutton, is very
rich, and underneath is gravell in many parts.
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The first ascent from Chippenham, sc. above the Deny hill, is sandy:
e. g. Bowdon-parke, Spy-parke, Sandy-lane, great clear sand, of which
I believe good glasse might be made; but it is a little too far from a
navigable river. They are ye biggest graines of sand that ever I saw,
and very transparent: some where thereabout is sand quite white.
At Burbidge the soile is an ash-coloured gray sand, and very naturall
for the production of good turnips. They are the best that ever I did
eate, and are sent for far and neere: they are not tough and stringy
like other turnips, but cutt like marmalad.
Quaere, how long the trade of turnips has been here? For it is
certain that all the turnips that were brought to Bristoll eighty
years since [now 1680] were from Wales; and now none come from thence,
for they have found out that the red sand about Bristoll doth breed a
better and a bigger turnip.
Burbidge is also remarqueable for excellent pease.
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The turf of our downes, and so east and west, is the best in the world
for gardens and bowling- greens; for more southward it is burnt, and
more north it is course.
Temple downe in Preshut parish, belonging to the right honble Charles
Lord Seymour, worth xxs.
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