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repent, and give proof of his repentance, by a 

 restoration of the property to the right owner. 



69. However, Mr. CURWEN, in his book, gives 

 an account of the wonderful effects of moving 

 the ground between plants in rows ; and he tells 

 us of an experiment, which he made, and which 

 proved, that from ground just ploughed, in a 

 * very dry time, an exhalation of many tons weight, 

 per acre, took' place, during the first twenty- 

 four hours after ploughing, and of a less and 

 less number of tons, during the three or four suc 

 ceeding twenty-four hours ; that, in the course 

 of about a week, the exhalation ceased; and 

 that, during the whole period, the ground, 

 though in the same field, which had not been 

 ploughed when the other ground was, exhaled 

 not an ounce! When I read this in Mr. CUR- 

 WEN'S book^ which was before I had read TULL, 

 I called to mind, that, having once dug the 

 ground between some rows of part of a plot of 

 cabbages in my garden, in order to plant some 

 late peas, I perceived (it was in a dry time) the 

 cabbages, the next morning, in the part re 

 cently dug, with big drops of dew hanging on 

 the edges of the leaves, and in the other, or 

 undug part of the plot, no drops at all. I had 

 forgotten the fact till J read Mr. CURWEN, and 

 I never knew the cause till 1 read the real Father 

 of English Husbandry. 

 ' 70. From this digression I return to the his- 



