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Article XXIX. 



On the Nature of different kinds of Soil \ and the 

 Grain, Pulfe, or Graffes 3 proper to each. 



Gentlemen, 



AS the publication of your firft volume of fe- 

 lect papers did you honour as a Society, 

 and furnifhed the publick with a variety, of ufeful 

 information, it gave me pleafure to fee, in the 

 advertifement of your annual meeting, that a fe- 

 cond volume was nearly ready for the prefs. And 

 as you feem defirous to obtain the correfpondence 

 of thofe who have had fome experience, and poiTefs 

 fome knowledge in the arts of cultivation, I am 

 willing to contribute my mite in this way. 



Agriculture, Planting, &c. have been my em- 

 ployment, ftudy, and amufement, near forty years; 

 and as I have kept regular minutes of the experi- 

 ments I made, they have fupplied me with consi- 

 derable inftruclion. 



I therefore beg leave to trouble you with a few 

 brief remarks on the nature of different foils, 

 and the crops mod likely to fucceed on each 

 refpeclively. 



Fir/i. Clay, 



