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a large crop of grafe the fucceeding fummer, but 

 1 have always found it more rank, and the hay 

 Ms fweet, than at other times. 



When I have turned the water of my fpring 

 over the land, I have found the produce equally 

 great, and the hay much finer and fwecter than 

 in the other inftance. I have alfo obferved, that 

 thofe meads which firft received the water from 

 the fpring, were mod luxuriant; and thofe which 

 it ran over 1 aft the leafl fo. I am therefore of 

 the opinion, that the beft and moft fertilizing 

 water for meadow land, is that which iflues im- 

 mediately from warm foft fprings. 



W. M. 



The following very ingenious letter on this fub- 

 ject we give entire : 



VIL 



Dear Sir, IVoolhampion^ Jan. 22, 1783. 



I esteem myfelf much honoured by the no- 

 tice the gentlemen of your Society have been 

 pleafed to take of my poor, but very willing en- 

 deavours to add my mite to promote the views of 



their very ufeful inftitution. To your prefent 



queflions, 



Firji., 



