Agricultural drainage : a retrospective of forty years experience / J. Bailey Denton.
- John Bailey Denton
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Agricultural drainage : a retrospective of forty years experience / J. Bailey Denton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[The following tabular statements, first prepared for the Society of Arts in 1855, have been corrected up to the present time, 1883.] Acres. Total content of England 32,597,398 „ „ Wales 4,721,823 Gross total 37,319,221 Total of England and Wales. I.— Western Division. The Western and North-Western, geologically termed the Alpine^ Western district, including the Devonian, the Cambrian, and the Cumbrian Division, ranges, embraces the mountainous granite and slate rocks, with the trap rocks, clays, and debris associated with them, and the conglomerate clay and loam of the old red sandstone, which cover a wide breadth of the lower lying portions of the district. The district is made up as follows :— Extent of Land Name of County, &c. Extent of Area included in District. cultivated, and Land not cultivated but capable of improvement, including woodland. Acres. Acres. Cornwall ... 870,000 680,000 Devonshire Somersetshire | parts of 5,672,700 Wales, with Mon-1 4,215,000 mouth Worcester \ Hereford > part of 1,303,700 1,000,000 Salop ) Lancashire Yorkshire Northumberland ■parts of 1,300,000 600,000 Westmoreland Cumberland Outlying portions of these 40,000 25,000 geological formations in the Midland district. Total acres. 9,186,400 6,520,000 Quantity representing the proportion of Land included in the last column, which, being wet, has been drained, or remains to be drained with more or less advantage. Acres. 255,000 2,250,000 650,000 360,000 10,000 3,525,000 D](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21782568_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
