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East Meon Froxfield Bower |
previous From East-Meon, I did not go on to Froxfield church, but turned off to the left to a place (a couple of houses) called Bower. Near this I stopped at a friend's house, which is in about as lonely a situation as I ever saw. A very pleasant place however. |
| hills | The land dry, a nice mixture of woods and fields, and a great variety of hill and dell. |
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East Meon geology loam flint chalk gravel marl |
Before I came to East-Meon, the soil of the hills was a shallow
loam with flints, on a bottom of chalk; but, on this side of the
valley of East-Meon; that is to say, on the north side, the soil
on the hills is a deep, stiff loam, on a bed on a sort of gravel
mixed with chalk; and the stones, instead of being grey on the
outside and blue on the inside, are yellow on the outside and
whitish on the inside. In coming on further to the North, I
found, that the bottom was sometimes gravel and sometimes chalk.
... Free chalk (which is the sort found here) is excellent manure
for stiff land, and it produces a complete change in the nature
of clays. It is, therefore, dug here, on the North of East-Meon,
about in the fields, where it happens to be found, and is laid
out upon the surface, where it is crumbled to powder by the
frost, and thus gets incorporated with the loam. next |
 
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