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The foil is a blackifh loam, from fourteen 

 inches to three feet deep, on a ftratum of fandy 

 (tone, which the country people compare to ful- 

 ler's earth. This done falls to pieces in the air; 

 but docs not crackle in the fire, diffolve in water, 

 or ettervefce with vinegar. Mr. Stirling made 

 an experiment feverai years ago, of planting 

 beeches in the foil alone, and others in the ftra- 

 tum alone without any foil, which laft flouriftied 

 much, and outgrew the other. 



Whether this account may prove of any real 

 utility, by inducing fome curious ^ fpeculatift to 

 fearch nicely into the component pa/ts of this fer- 

 tile foil, you will beft judge. 



I am, your very humble fervant, 



BENJAMIN PRYCE. 



Mr. Edmund Rack. 



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