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acres, had carried upon the ground 600 waggon loads 

 of marlc (drawn by f jur horfes each) ; and having 

 fprcad this marie every where evenly, two fucceflive 

 ploughings perfedly united it with the natural foil. It 

 mud be added, that thefc acres were originally the worfl 

 of the whole 50 ; and that now they even exceeded the 8 

 firft mentioned, having fewer weeds with a lighter foil. 

 — What adoniflied our author was the duration of the 

 effects of the marie. Kliyogg had a field of wheat \cry 

 finely conditioned, w^hich neverthelefs had received no 

 other drcfiing than marie four years before. — In another 

 field which he had already twice marled, the young 

 grain was finer than any where elfe. On the other 

 hand, the fields of his next neighbors, which had na 

 marie, were lb little producflix e, that they fcarccly re- 

 paid their pofFelTors for their expence. 



p. 2ig— 221. From his fields, Kliyogg went to his 

 marie pit. — A marle-pit fornetimes makes itfelf knowr^ 

 at the furface ; but at other times it is covered with a 

 mixed foil of a few inches, under which the marie fome- 

 times defcends ten feet. Mere and thei-e hard pieces 

 prefent themfelves, in which arc petrified plants. The 

 marie in general has a ^yrcy color, but it is fornetimes 

 blue, it contains particles ivhich gliden in the fun ; it 

 ferments with acids ; and it yields a very fmall quanti- 

 ty of feleneticfalt. 



p. 222 — 224. Before quitting the marie pit, we mull 

 fpeak of an amiable aft of our philofopher. He re- 

 commended 10 the Agricultural Society of Watt, a poor 

 peafant, in whom he had remarked a great palTion for 

 agriculture ; but, being without means, this peafani 

 could undertake nothing important. The Society mace 

 him a prefent of 20 liorins, five of uhich he fpcnt in 

 buying a little negleftcd field of half an acre. The reil 

 of his money he employed in bringing marie upon it ; 

 which by this drcfiing and his labors v»."as fo improv- 

 ed, that in the firit year it yielded 50 ftieaves of wheat. 

 ---The countenar.ee of Kliyogg brightened with iov, as 



