130 An ESS AY Chap. 3. 



thefe tbrove not near fo ?mch, nor did the 

 Water afcend in vigh the Quantity it did in 

 the hotter Seafons in which the before-recited 

 Trials were made. 



Thus far this Ingenious Author. I now 

 proceed to demonftrate, 



Thcfeverai That this Lucid Body of Rain (and other 

 Virtues of Water) does not only diffolve the Salts that 

 ^'"' are in the Earth, but likewife (as common 

 Experience (hews) cools, and, as it were, 

 balneates and bathes the Cortex or Skin of all 

 Plants and Vegitables, and by a kind of Re- 

 laxation caufes the Sap to prefs more freely 

 up, and confequently the Tree to grow and 

 {hoot the better : And this direfts us in the 

 common Pradice of that Method of fprinkling 

 our Trees with an Engine, which has this 

 EfFeft, as well as the waftiing Caterpillars and 

 other Vermin from the Leaves and Bodies 

 thereof. 



^^t^eTwf' ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^^ii\ may in fome 

 ^^y^' ^^'' meafure be faid of Water impregnated with 

 Dungs, and warm'd by the Genial Rays of 

 the Sun, I mean as to its Effefts in the 

 Ground in the Diffolution of the Salts, as 

 well as the Salts that defcend down with 

 them, but is not indeed to be ufed in fprink- 

 ling, but rather clear warm Water. 

 tkcEcQ, If one would chufe the firft, it ought to be 

 fome Pond, the bottom whereof is fiU'd with 

 all forts of Dung 5 but Pidgeon and Sheep- 

 Dung is very excellent, provided there be not 



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