Note 332 — Chapter VII · THE TRIBAL SYSTEM (continued).
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Pliny (Monument. Hist. Brit., pp. viii. ix.): 'Alia est ratio, quam Britannia et Gallia invenere alendi eam (terram) ipsa: quod genus vocant "margam." . . . Omnis autem marga aratro injicienda est.'
Pugh's Welsh Dict., p. 328: 'Marl, earth deposited by water, a rich kind of clay (with many compounds).'
See Chron. Monas. Abingdon. II. xxx. P. 147, 'on tha lampyttes;' p. 402, 'on thone lampyt' ('lam,' loam, mud, clay.—Bosworth, p. 41 b). Pp. 150 and 404, 'on tha cealc seathas' (chalk-pits).
See Liber de Hyda, p. 88, 'caelcgrafan' (chalk-pits).
Compare Pliny (ubi supra) with Abingdon, ii. p. 294: 'Totam terram quæ nimis pessima et infructifera erat tam citra aquam quam ultra compositione terræ quæ vulgo "Marla" dicitur, ipse optimam et fructiferam fecit.' (Colne in Essex.)