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more confined in their extent, though not lefs wor- 

 thy of attention on that account, than thofe abov« 

 cited. 



THOMAS VELLEY. 



Art. XL, 



Apr apical Defcription of a particular Mode of 

 Improving certain Lands — and a Dijfcrtaiion on the 

 Improvement of Cattle, 



[By John White Parsons, efq.] 



N. B. Though the following mode of Improving Land is 

 certainly not a new difcovery, yet, as coming from fo 

 praftical an improver, and being fo well defcribed, it is 

 judged highly worthy of communication to the publick . 

 for the method cannot be too extenfively known. 



DEAR SIR, Wefi-CameU Od. 3, 1796, 



PAINFUL as the tafk of writing always is to me, 

 (or I Ihould not have given up the lucrative 

 profelhon of the law for the peaceful fliepherd's 

 life) yet at your particular requefi, with pieafure I 

 take up my pen, to difclofe to you my fecret of con- 

 verting clay into gold, which I have found to be the 

 bed manure for dividing and improving ftrong, four, 

 and fwarapy clay land ; — and is as follows ; 



In 



