hnprovement of arable Land, tp^ 

 SECTION viir* 



Of Superficial Manurifig of Lafid^^ afer the 

 Corn is fow'd, hy MMt Duft. 



THere has not been (nor is in many Pla* 

 ces at prefent) any fort of Improve- 

 itient fo Jittle known or nfed as Malt Duft, 

 nor indeed any thing that at firft Sight one 

 would think had lefs Virtue in it ; But 

 there is fuch a natural Heat and Sweetnefs in 

 it, that gives the Earth whereon it is laid, a 

 proper Fermentation, as Experience in tlamp^ 

 Jhire and other Malting Countries fhows; from 

 which we may judge, that every thing that 

 gives Life and Vigour to Land, is not of one 

 Kind or one Principle, be they then of a fa- 

 line duaUty as Salt, of a hot and biting Qua- 

 lity as Pepper,of a Iharp and (bur tafte as Vine* 

 gar; be they fweet as Sugar, or Moloffes, or in 

 fhort, be they of what QiJality foever, they 

 all help forward in the Promotion of the great 

 Work of Vegetation, by the fubtle Infinua- 

 tion of their fpirituous Parts into the Surface"^, 

 of the Earth, there caufing by the Co-opera- 

 tion of Water, the Diflblution of thofe Clods 

 that contain the Chryftalline Parts, (b neceH 

 fary and fo often underltood to refidc there 

 for the Bufinefs of Vegetation. To come 

 home to the Nature of Malt Duft, there n 



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