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the Earth being loole and hollow, the Sun 



by its Heat doth draw up the Moifture and 



Richnefi of the Earth and Soil, which the 



Rain does leave, by which means thefe kind 



of Earths are doubly robb'd of their vital 



Juice5. 



A Third Sort of Ground being barren and 

 unfruitful is the Gravel which is mix'd with 

 it, a hungry Earth refembling (or as it in- 

 deed properly is) a gritty, loofe Sand ; This 

 Ground, if it lie high and mountainous, then 

 the outward Face and Charafter will appear 

 as it did in the poor Sand Clay, one Caufe 

 of its Barrennefs is from Cold, the Gravel 

 wanting good Earth to warm and nouriih 

 that which fliould grow in it 5 alfo becaufe 

 in Time of Drought, the Sun will fcorch and 

 burn up that which ihould grow thereon : 

 And if thisGraveley Ground lie low, then it is 

 Subjeft to Land Springs, it naturally drawing 

 the fuperflaous Moifture of all adjacent Lands ^ 

 and this waflies away all the Subftance of 

 the Soil, (which in its own is in Truth but 

 little) alfo much Rain does likewife wafh 

 away the Fatnefs of the Earth, (inflead of 

 improving it) by Reafbn of the Round- 

 neft and Loofenefs of the Stones ; fo that 

 what with the Waters within the Ground, 

 and the Waters above the Ground, alfo the 

 Heat and Scorching of the Sun, which doth 

 dry up more eallly its Moifture, this kind of 

 Eanh muft of Neceffity be unfruitful, nei- 

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