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Then doe they bring in Sea sand, of greater or lesser quantitie,
partly after their neerenesse to the places, from which it is fetched,
and partly by the good husbandrie, and abilitie of the Tiller. An
ordinarie Horse wil carrie two sackes of Sand, and of such the
borderers on the Sea, doe bestow, 60. at least, in euerie Acre, but
most Husbands double that number. The Inland soyle requireth not so
large a proportion, and in some places, they sow it almost as thinne
as their Corne: for if they should strow the same verie thicke, the
ground would become ouer-rancke, and choke the Corne with weeds.
A little before plowing time, they scatter abroad those Beat-boroughs,
& small Sand heaps vpon the ground, which afterwards, by the Ploughes
turning downe, giue heate to the roote of the Corne. The tillable
fields are in some places so hilly, that the Oxen can hardly take sure
footing; in some so tough, that the Plough will scarcely cut them, and
in some so shelfie, that the Corne hath much adoe to fatten his roote.


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