14^ Of the Management y and 



or chapping in dry Weather, or turning to 

 Mortar in wer. 



As for the feveral Parts of which Earth is 

 ccmpos'd (I mean thofe relating to Vegeta- 

 tion) 'tis certain they are but few; the 

 Earth ftript of its fertile Principles, being no 

 other than the Bed or Couch, wherein they 

 lie after their firft Lodgment and Impregna- 

 tion, fince'tis apparent, that the Earth is not 

 all Salt, Nitre, or call it which you will, but 

 that ail abound with it, fome more, and fome 

 1q(s ; and the Earth fimply confidered, may 

 be divided into two Parts \ that which is 

 gritty, porous and crumbling, that which 

 is vifcous or clammy. And I maft confefs my 

 felf at aiois to find how Mr. Evelyn fuppo- 

 ies that Clamminefs is an Accidental, ra- 

 ther than a Conftitutive Part of Eanh, 

 fince the Glutinofity of Clay does without 

 doubt proceed from the fame Time and 

 Caufe, as the loofe arenaceous and po- 

 rous of Sand, it being thofe, and only 

 thofe iv/o Principles, in relation to touch, 

 that properly belong to the Head we are 

 on. 



The proper Apellation of thofe other clear* 

 fandy, or cryftaliine Parts, which are by all 

 acknowledged to be theNutritive Parts,when 

 ^>y the Diftillations of Rain and Water, and 

 by the approach of the Fibres of the Tree,- 

 they liquate and run, and arc either joyn d. 

 tpj or more properly are carried thro' the In- 



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