132 Of the Management^ and 



tations and K/Z^/s, both for Profit and Plea- 

 fute. 



This being premised, as the general De- 

 fign of this Chapter 5 let us now in Purfu- 

 ance of our Dcfign, inquire into the Nature 

 .of the feveral Improvements we now make 

 ufe of in V^nghnd for our Lands, whether 

 Natural, or Artificial. By Natural I would be 

 underftood to mean the fimple Methods of 

 Fallowing, Folding, and Dunging 5 and by 

 Artificial, the feveral Compofures of Earth, 

 Dung, and, which is frill more furprizing, 

 the Help that Lands receive from Grafs-feeds 

 and Vegetables. Both of them might be in- 

 deed included under one Head, but I pur- 

 pofely divide them for the more Methodical 

 iProceding in this WorL 



SECTION IL 



Of the Natural Improvements of Land by the 

 Plough^ Spadey 6cc. 



TH E Original of this is without doubt, 

 coeval with the World it felf, being 

 appointed by God Almighty for the Employ 

 of Man after his unhappy Fall, and for the 

 Redrels cf thofe Malignities that were in- 

 flifted on the Earth (by God's Command) 

 for Man's Difobedience ; and this being the 

 firft of our natural Methods, I thought fit 



to 



