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Much of the stiff soil of this stratum is now in pasture, though it appears, by the high ridges in the midland and northern parts of its course, to have been formerly mostly in tillage. This stratum expands over a great space in the southern part of Somersetshire, where, as in the vale of Gloucester, it produces many of the best orchards, and' some excellent grazing grounds. It spreads wide on each side the vale of Evesham, through the vale of Red Horse, produces the same kind of pasture in its course through Warwickshire and Leicestershire, and the vale of BelVoir to Lincolnshire, and, in a large portion of Northhamptonshire shiiptonsbire and Oxfordshire; becomes much interspersed with the Stony lands of the stratum above. From a general want of stone, the roads in the course of this stratum are bad, except where foreign materials have been introduced by canals or other water-carriage. [47]
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Bibliography
Smith, William. A Memoir to the Map and Delineation of Strata of England and Wales. London: John Cary, 1815.
Created 11 September 2018