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to exhaufl the earth of its oils, Lime laid 

 on ground wore out by continual crops, 

 rather hurts it than improves it ; becaufe it 

 does not meet with oil or oleaginous bodies 

 to aft upon, and blunt it. The proper cure 

 for this is, to mix dung with the lime, fo 

 that it may have fomething to aft on. 



LIME is a great difiblver of all bodies, 

 both vegetable and animal, but particularly 

 the latter. We know how foon it difiblves 

 hair and woollen rags into a pulpy fub- 

 ftance. This effect is fo flrong, that, in 

 the common method of fpeaking, it is faid 

 to burn them. In this way it certainly ope- 

 rates in the earth, by dilTolving all animal 

 and dry vegetable fubftances, and converting 

 them to the nourimment of vegetables, 

 at leaft fooner than otherwife they would 

 be. 



LIME powerfully refifts putrefaction, as 

 is difcovered by many experiments. It does 

 not appear, therefore, very judicious, to mix 



quick- 



