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Cornwall, and particularly at Bade Haven, there is a 

 vast and constant accumulation of fine sand, containing 

 a considerable proportion of lime, which is the result 

 of comminuted fragments of shells, which are mixed 

 with the siliceous matter of those rocks, which probably 

 form the basin of this part of the ocean, whose violence 

 here beneficially exerts itself in grinding down the 

 subjacent strata for the service of man. This sand 

 precisely answers the use of the farmer throughout the 

 district referred to, not only by supplying that ingredient 

 which is most deficient in the soil, as a manure, but 

 serving to loosen its otherwise too close and adhesive 

 quality. But for this arrangement of Providence, a 

 large portion of those lands which are now sufficiently 

 productive must have been left wholly uncultivated, and 

 would have been little better than mere sheep-walks. 

 A similar wise, and merciful adaptation, there can be 

 little doubt, prevails in other parts of this island, so ar 

 to remedy what defects may exist in the soil, (according 

 to that wondrous principle of compensation which runs 

 through all the works of God) by placing the evil and 

 its antidote near together. 



But amongst all the various and striking provisions 

 which have been made for the convenience of man by 



