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\vherein oru Theme that is cleared by natural 

 and rational Arguments (when agreeable to 

 the Judgment of great Men) makes more" 

 Imp^eilion on the Mind, than many pb- 

 RtiVL Precepts, which too often (to ule the 

 common ExpreiBonJ go in at one Ear, and 

 out at the other •, but when the Nature and 

 Reafon of the matter is clearly made cui:, 

 the Judgment is foon hxd v/nh Delight, and 

 the Matter retain'd as long as Lite it felf, ot 

 Memory is perfeft or lafti'ng. 



Thus; I have not thought it fufScient to 

 fay pofitively, that fuch and fuch Compo- 

 fures of Earth, Dang, or other Improve- 

 ments are proper for fuch and fuch Lands 5 

 but have from as plain Arguments, as the 

 Nature of the Matter would hear, and to 

 the befi: of my own llnderftanding dcmon- 

 ftrated why it is fo, and have endeavoured to 

 fiiew the Methods, by which Nature works 

 its EfTecis, 



And, that I might proceed the better, I 

 have firft faid fomething preparatory to the 

 ImprovemiCnt of Lands l>y pioughing them § 

 the Nature of all or moil of the Sorts of 

 Land we abound with here in EngUf^d^ and 

 their Improvements by Dung, or other Ccm- 

 pods, and by fovving of Grafs-feed, &c^ Andj 

 to hnifh all, added the particular ll(es and 

 Virtues ot all Sorts of Comport, abftraftedly 

 confiderM with a Treatife of Seeds, and Grain, 

 * at are to be fow'd in thefe our rural Plan- 

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