is transported from the Burriton hills, a distance of fifteen Glass Sand.-P. 42. “A vein of white sand is found in Alum Bay, at the north-west end of the island, (Isle of Wight) and is much in demand for the glass-works of Bristol, Liverpool, along the west coast of England, Scot land, and throughout Ireland." MINERALS.-P. 40. “The mineral substances found · within this county are but few. A quantity of what is called copperas stone, was formerly collected on the southern shores of the Isle of Wight, and sent to the copper works to be smalted. Alum has also been inade in some of the western coves of the island, but neither the gathering of the copper-stone, or carrying on the alum-works, appear to be all attended to at the present time. No other description of minerals were heard of or noticed in the county, save in a few instances the casual occurrence of ironstone, which in the woodland district sometimes appeared, but no where of sufficient value to render it an object for the purpose of manufacture." THE APPROPRIATED LANDS, of Hampshire.The fol lowing brief accounts of the states in which those lands. lay, in 1808, in different parts of the County,—are well ... entitled, I conceive, to a place in this register..! Northern Vale Lands.-P. 77. "The proportion of productive country within this District, and exeluding the heaths and commons (which are very considerable), are estimated as follows: of arable there is about one half; grass, three-twentieths; and of timber and coppice wood- lands, the remainder, or seven-twentieths." Chalk Hills.-P. 80. "The proportion of productive coun try (excepting the old pared and burnt downs, and which are only only applicable for rabbit-warrens) may be thus estimated: six-twentieths down sheep-walk; five-twentieths light, thin-stapled, sainfoin land; four-twentieths red, flinty-grey, chisselly, and shravy loam; two-twentieths pasture and meadow ground on the permanent greenside; and three twentieths coppice-wood, oak, and beach woodlands." dow New Forest.-P. 85. "An almost insurmountable difficulty appears to occur, on a Survey of this nature, in stating in all cases the relative proportions of a country thus! occupied; but where public and private property, individual, church, and crown lands, are so blended and mixedi together, as in the district now before us, it is in a manner impossible, on so cursory a view, to form any thing of an estimate upon which the slightest reliance should be placed. Difficulties, however, have seldom repressed the efforts of the Surveyor, in attempting to accomplish whatever shee conceived to be right; and therefore, to the best of chis judgment, and excluding the forests, chases, heaths, and common lands from the estimate, he will venture to state the following proportions, as applicable to the enclosed-and. productive property only. Arable or tillage lands, twelve twentieths; upland-meadows, embanked marshes, and other? feeding grounds, three-twentieths; water-meadow and osierbeds, one-twentieth; coppice and timber woodlands, fourtwentieths." Interior of the Isle of Wight.-P. 89. " This District is generally well wooded, and the proportion of land under a convertible system of up and down husbandry, to that lying permanently on its green side, may be stated at about five of ploughed land to one under grass." The UNAPPROPRIATED LANDS.-Forest Lands—P. 5. "The New Forest occupies a large extent of the southwestern division of the county; and on its south-east and eastern quarters are the chase and forests of Bere and Bishop's Waltham, and of Woolmer and Alice Holt. Parkhurst or Carisbrook forest, lying north-westwardly of, and at a short distance from Newport, in the Isle of Wight, affords with other extensive and highly improvable wastes in the county, objects of great national concern." P. 496. "The appropriation of the forests, somewhat in the manner here suggested, would not only tend to a copsiderable increase in the national population, but at the same time be the means of producing a number of additional useful hands for agricultural employment, by gradually That of "consigning them to the care and direction of the honourable Board of Agriculture" p. 495, Du Norve ally cutting up and annihilating that nest and conservatory of sloth, idleness and misery, which is uniformly to be witnessed in the vicinity of all commons, waste lands, and forests, throughout the kingdom. Was the condition of these people in the smallest degree ameliorated by the little property in a horse or cow which they may eventually become the owners of, far, very far indeed, would it be from the intention of the Surveyor to recommend any measure, that in its consequence might tend to abridge them of such prospective advantages; but in viewing their habitations, the appearance of themselves and families, to say nothing of their morals, in comparison with what is daily to be witnessed in the family and appearance of the steady daylabourer in other parts of the country (that afford none of the advantages ascribed to the situation of the forester, or the equally wretched inhabitant of an extensive common), is quite sufficient to justify the Surveyor in an earnest wish, that old as he now is, be yet may live to see the day when every species of inter-commonable and forest rights may either be extinguished, or in a progressive state of forwardness to be abolished and utterly done away. "The incalculable mischief at present done by the trespass of the deer in the cultivated enclosures binding upon and near the forests, is an evil that ought not to be sanctioned by any authority whatsoever." For Messrs. Driver's circumstantial and valuable observations, on the Forests of Hampshire, see p. 288, aforegoing, Common Pastures.-For the extent and general remarks concerning the "Waste Lands" of Hampshire; see, also, Messrs. D.'s account, aforegoing. The following observations I extract from Mr. V.'s Report. P. 318. "It may be remarked through the whole extent of this country, that there are none, or at least very little, of that description of wastes which in Devonshire are called moors, all of which, in a greater or less degree, bear evident marks of a former cultivation, and which are appurtenant to particular estates, many having the sites of their former meets and bounds still traceable, and (for which though rent is paid) are pastured in common, and according to the usage of such places, by the occupiers of such estates, and in a sort of joint tenancy of this description of waste or intercommonable land, there did not appear to be any deserving of particular notice in this county. "The wastes in general through the county, whether forest, or beath and commons belonging to particular parishes, present generally two distinct rights to the inhabitants of their vicinage; one, the right of common of pasture, which is the right of taking the verdure or herbage of such such wastes by the mouths of cattle; the other, common of turbary, which is the right to pare turf from the surface of those lands, or dig in or upon them peat for fuel. "In regard to the royal forests, neither of these rights are exercised, without some trifling consideration being paid by the persons claiming, both as to the right of turbary and pasturage for cattle. The parochial commons lie open, in general, to an unrestrained exercise of these rights by all who reside within their respective perambulations; but this, from the great overstock by which the commons are generally crowded during the summer season, produces little or no substantial benefit to those who claim and exercise it. The right of turbary in many cases has led to so shameful a deterioration of the surface of some of the more valuable wastes in the county, as seems loudly to call for its being in future regulated by some restraining authority; an evil which in no way can be so wisely and effectually cured, as by placing such intercommonable lands in a state of severalty, and consequently commuting such rights by apportioning land in lieu of them." P. 320. "There being neither mountains, bogs, or fens, properly so called, in this county, the object for farther examination in this chapter, is the present state and extent of salt marshes, or rather large tracts of sea mud. These occur upon the inlets, and along the southern shores of the county, and in the Isle of Wight; and although they are not generally raised to the highest level of the common spring tides, and consequently not covered with the herbage peculiar to salt marshes which may have attained that height of perfection (from the deposition of silt and sediment made upon them by the land and tidal waters, and in the manner formerly explained by the Surveyor on this subject), yet in many places the surface of these banks of mud assume a sufficient degree of richness, from the mild hazel-coloured loam of which they are composed, to justify trials on a small scale to embank and improve them. "A long range of mud or salt marsh, on the west side of the Southampton river, extends through the parish of Fawley: this is subject to be slightly covered during the top of the ordinary neap tides; but from its superior height above the level of the present embanked marshes, and the annual growth of long marsh grass and samphire it affords, seems likely to answer a valuable purpose, if embanked from the sea; by which means a double purpose would be answered a considerable tract of valuable land would be obtained, and the descent of the tidal and land waters, being confined to the navigable channel of the Southampton river, would produce a more effectual scour in the bed of that river, than can possibly be expected from the loose and circuitous course they now take in wandering through the sands; and a straighter channel, with deeper water, would be brought nearer to the town and harbour of that port."-The extent of those literally waste lands, is laid at 2,000 acres. P. 321. "About 4000 acres of this description of mud are found along shore between Hurst Castle and the mouth of Beauley river. In the inlet or harbour of Portsmouth there are about 3000 acres, and the harbour of Langston and Emsworth, taking only so much of the latter as lies within the county of Hants, will amount to 5500 acres, all of which are nearly dry by the first quarter's ebb, and consequently the tidal waters can produce no scouring effect whatever, or contribute in the smallest degree towards keeping open the mouths of such harbours as admit so much of the last part of the flood-tides to enter, and spread over these extensive mud banks, and which appear in many places to be nearly raised to their highest level. "Some valuable tracts of marsh might be obtained by constructing a bank a little above the town of Yarmouth, across the mouth of that river, in the Isle of Wight; thus cutting off the ascent of the tide-waters, and which upon a small unimportant stream of that magnitude, can have no pos sible ill effect whatever. The gradual silting or growing up of this harbour, is a sufficient demonstration of this truth; and the value of the land which would be thus obtained to the estates lying on each side of the river, would also be considerable. The inlets of Shalfleet and Newton afford also some small pieces of salt marsh ready for embanking; but the object which engaged the attention of the Surveyor most particularly on this subject, is the bason on the eastern side of the island, called Brading harbour."-The embankable lands of Brading haven are estimated, by Mr. V., at 500 acres. Mr. Vancouver, while speaking, at some length, on the improvement of those uncultivated lands,-in terms similar to those that have been offered, again and again, to the attention of Government,-elicits the subjoined happy thought.P. 474. "If we consider the aggregate extent and quality of the forests and waste lands of this kingdom as lying in the English channel, or any where in an equally favoured climate on the coast of the island, would not the most unsparing efforts be made by Government to conquer and secure them, not less for the addition which such possessions would make to the national stock, than for the advantage they |