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towns, and eagerly bought by the adjacent farmers, 

 the deficiency is pretty well fupplied, and the pro- 

 duce of their lands nearly equal to that in other 

 parts of the ifland. 



Their general inattention to fea-weed* is an- 

 other proof of their deficiency in the knowledge 

 of manures. 



On the eaft, fouth, and weft coafts, the fea beats 

 with great violence, and throws up vaft quantities 

 of weeds on the beach, which might be coUedied 

 with little expence, and being mixed in compoft 

 with lime and earth, or dung, prove a moft valu- 

 able and fertilizing manure in thofe places where it 

 is moft wanted. 



I enquired of divers farmers why they did not 

 thus apply a treafure which nature had fo amply 

 furniftied them with. The fubftance of their an- 

 fwer was, '^ that it never had been ufed unlefs to 

 " mix with chalk for their bean lands, and that 

 '* they apprehended it promoted the growth of 



* We cannot help exprefling our furprife, that this excellent manure^ 

 fhould be fo much ncglefled as It is on the banks of the Severn ; but it 

 fceras almofl Impoflible to make common farmers fenfible of the ad- 

 vantages arifing from iniproveracnts, not made by their forefathers. 



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