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ufed, the feed is much and the ftra vv little, (/ have feen, faies he 

 in fuch a Place, good Barly, where the ear has been equal in length 

 with theftalk.it grew on} and after the Corn is off, that the grafs 

 in fuch places turns to Clover. Some of the heft of this fand, he 

 faies, lies under Ouje or Mud about a foot deep ; and who knows 

 but there may be fuch a Sand under the briny Bog near Church- 

 />/'//- mill, or at Chadlingtcn ? 1 am fure the fait firing at Clifton 

 comes from a fand ; if fo, and the Farmers thereabout get fuch 

 Corn and Clover-grafi, I hope I (hall not want the thanks of the 

 Country. 



46. However, I do not doubt but the water will be ferviceable, 

 either to caft on their Land., as at Nantwich, or to fteep their 

 Corn in before they fow it, to preferve it from all the inconve- 

 niencies formerly prevented by brining and liming it, and to 

 ftrengthen it in its growth. 



47. Sir Hugh Plat* tells us, of a poor Country-man who paf- 

 fing over an arm of the fea with his Seed-corn in a fack, by mif- 

 chance at his landing fell into the water, and fo his Corn being 

 left there till the next Ebb, became fomwhat brackifh ; yet fuch 

 was the neceffity of the Man, that (notwithftanding he was out 

 of all hope of any good fuccefs, yet not being able to buy any 

 other) he fowed the fame upon his plowed grounds ; and in fine, 

 when the Harveft time came about, he reaped a crop of goodly 

 Wheat, fuch as in that year not any of his Neighbors had the 

 like. 



48. Now let the Owners or Farmers of thefe firings fit down 

 and confider of what has been faid, and if they fhall think fie, 

 make tryal of them, wherein, if they meet with fuccefs, I only 

 beg of them (which I (hall gladly accept as the guerdon of my 

 labors) that they would be as free of it to their poor Neighbors 

 that have lean grounds and ill penny-worths, as God has been to 

 them by me his weak inftrument in the difcovery. 



49. Having fpoke of fuch waters as cure faulty grounds, and 

 cuticular diftempcrs by external application, it followeth, that we 

 treat of fuch as are, or may be taken inwardly, and defcrve the 

 repute of Medicinal waters. The firft, and perchance the beft of 

 thefe, 1 found at Veddington, a fmall Mercat Town, within the 

 Clofe of one Mr. Lane, where not long fmce digging a Well, 



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