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find spewing Grounds, being suffer’d to lie a competent time to resolvebefore you turn it in; Earth on Earth, that is (I suppose he means)the under part upon the upper, or the second /pit on the first, as wehave all along directed at the breaking of fresh Ground with the Spade.

Another mixture he commends (and which we have likewise newlytouched) of Substances, which are not nicer Earth, as Soot, Jjhes,nor the hard and dry (Sinders of Sea-coal ( which we are too busy withabout this Town, where the Ground is naturally too hot and dry ) butluch as is apt to relent, and even the sprinkling of Salt, where it isrifely sown.

A third is, the permitting Vegetables, abounding in fixed Salts , todie into the Ground, Tease haulm, Bracks , all forts of Stubble cast onabout the beginning of IVinter-. So Leaves of Trees mingled with^halk, and proper Composts of Dungs , to heat and preserve the Groundfrom lowring with them, when they arc us’d alone.

A fourth is ( what we have also touch'd) Heat and Comfort, pro-cur’d by Calcinations, the burning o (Ling, Heath, Sedge ; coveringthe Ground with Bushes for a time ; Enclosures of‘Walls and Mounds,when the Land lies in the eye of the Weather, and in other Gales,Meridian Exposures, and the Warmth of the woolly Fleeces of Sheepas well as manure, folded or pastur’d; And to this we may add, thevery grazing of Cattle , which in some cafes has succeeded better thanthe best dungy Compost , especially for old, and decay’d Orchards , whichhave been obferv’d to recover to admiration, when mowing has beenpernicious; for even the biting of Cattle , gives a gentle loosening tothe Roots of the Herbage, and makes it to grow fine and sweet, andtheir very Breath and Treading, as well as Soil, and the comfort of theirWarm Bodies is wholibmc, and marvellously cherishing: But this is tobe understood of places where the Stems are of full growth, and wherethe Beast cannot reach to crop.

Lastly, Irrigation , and watering, both by admitting and excludingMoisture at pleasure And certainly, this has ( since his Lordjhip's time )been found one ot the richest 1 mprovements that ever was put in practice ;es pecially, where they have tire command of fat and impregnate fCaters,Without Griftincls, or being over-harfh and cold; whether it percolatethrough rich Ground, or, which is better, descending from Eminences,and moderate Declivities, from whence we find the Vallies so luxuriousand flourishing.

To this belongs the cure of wet and boggy Lands, by cutting Ttenchesdeeper than the Cause of the Evil, which proceeds from some conccal’dSprings hinder’d from emerging forth by the sluggish incumbent Earth :This makes the Ground to heave and lwell, but not giving vent, tostagnate and corrupt both the Water and the Mould about it : Andthough it lie loose and hollow, yet it gathers no Vigor from above, buttemains cold and insipid. * The remedy is, opening the Ground till youn teet with a found bottom, and cutting your Furrow upwards to theAog, about a Foot beneath the spewing water : This is to be done inseveral places, and when the Drains appear to have wrought the effect,ystP} may fill them up again with Spray and Bavinc, great and roughMints,’Brick-bats,Tile/hards, Horse Bones, the Sculls of the S laugh-ter house , or any other Rubbish, which will remain loose and hollow,and cover them with the grassy fide of Turf which you pared off, andlaid a P art ; on that , throw your other Mould, which being cast up in

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* See 7, fr,King’* excel-lent Discourseconcerning thecure of Bogsand Loughs,&c. Phil.Transact.Vol. XIV.

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