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Garden-Ground, tho' it is proper and agreea* 

 bJe for both. Thefe Shells being nothing 

 elfe but Salt congeai'd, when difiolv'd, are 

 endu'd with a mcft frudifying Quality, and 

 will enrich Lands for many Years. together, 

 tho the firflYear you may be very little fenfible 

 of its Effed, 'til it has been fufficiently mix'd 

 with the moid Earth, and expos'd to the Sun. 

 Your fewer or cold Ground generally reaps 

 the greateft Benefit from thefe Shells 5 and 

 Sea-Sand, which has commonly Fifh-Sheils 

 mix'd with it, broke almoft as fmall as the 

 Sand itfelf by the continual Flux of the Tide, 

 is a very great Improver of Lands. The rich- 

 eft of all Sand is that which coines from the 

 Creeks of the Sea 5 its Goodnefs confifts in 

 its Saltnefs, and the Fat or Filth that the Sea 

 gathers from Land-Floods, the Shores, the 

 Fifh, and other Things that putrify in the 

 Water, and the Mixing of the Shells as al- 

 ready mention'd. This Manure is very miUch 

 ufed in the WeH Country^ where, after they 

 have taken four Crops of Corn from it, they 

 lay down the Ground to-Pafture for fix or fe- 

 ven Years: It caufes the Corn to have a large 

 Ear and a (hort Straw, fo that fometimes the 

 Ear of Barley is almoft as long as the Stalk : 

 And the Produft of Grafs, after it is laid 

 down, is very good, and, tho' ihort, yields 

 great Plenty of Milk, a^d fattens Cattel ex- 

 ceedingly. There are three Sorts of Sands, 

 the Red, the Blue, and the White, of which 



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