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Vegetable Statkks. 5 1 



fmre nature had provided in the earth , ( a- 

 ^ainft the dry lummer fcafon,) that might 

 anfwer this great expence of it, which is fd 

 necefTary for the production and fupport of 



vegetables. 



July 31. 1724. I dug up a cubick foot o* 

 earth in an alley, which was very little tram- 

 pled on ; it weighed ( after deducting the 

 weight of the containing velTel ) 1 04- pounds 

 -f- 4 ounces -\- i. A cubick foot of water 

 weighs 59 -(- i, which is little more than half 

 the fpecifick gravity of earth. This was a 

 dry fcafon, with a mixture of fome few mow- 

 ers , 10 that the grafs-plat adjoyning was not 

 burnt up. 



At the fame time I dug up another cu- 

 bick foot of earth, from the bottom of the 

 former, it weighed 106 pound 4- 6 ounces? 



I dug up alfo a third cubick foot of carth^ 

 at the bottom of the two former, it weighed 

 1 1 1 pounds -f- f . " 



Thefe three feet depth were a good brick 

 earth, next to which was gravel, in which 

 at 2 feet depth, <viz. 5 feet below the fur- 

 face of the earth, the fprings did then run. 

 When the firft cubick foot of earth was 



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