THE RURAL SOCRATES, 15^ 



Tying to it confiderable quantities of manure, whfch the 

 difcovery of his marie rendered fo pradlicable. This 

 manure increafing his grafs, he was enabled to increafe 

 his cattle, and thence his dung. But all this required 

 the patience, firmnefs, application, and reflexion of Kli- 

 yogg. — The drielV part of this meadow Kliyogg had 

 fpread over with gypium ; and the iflue anfwered his 

 expeiflations, the meadow being covered with red clo- 

 ver, as with a carpeti Twenty fmall meafures of gyp- 

 fum at the cofl of three florins, fill a falt-barrcl ; and 

 one barrel fufficed for a whole acre ; producing as nuich 

 effect as ten loads of dung, without being, fubjedlt to any 

 of the inconveniences of which fome accufe it, . 



p. 231 — 232. After running over half the farm, the 

 author turned towards the hpufe, there to make a coun- 

 try dinner. — But as they palTed a particular field, Kli- 

 yogg remarked that it had been marled without the 

 lead benefit ; which he attributed to the moifiure of the 

 marie; it having been taken from a pit entirely filled 

 with v/ater. — It is here therefore proper to obfervc, 

 that there are different forts of marle^ all of which have 

 not the fame efficacy ; and that it is abfolutely necfeffa- 

 ry to ftudy the land, and to confult experiment, before 

 employing the marie in any quantity j the bcfl theory 

 being contradicted often by pratSlice. 



p. 233 — 234. In palling by the woods of^ KHyOgg 

 their neatncis appeared aflonifhing. The abfence of 

 thorns, of mofs, and of heaps of leaves, made it appear. 

 like walking in fhady alleys.— But we ihall find that 

 this neatnefs arofe from Kliyogg having found in hii 

 woods, the befl manure for his vines « 



p. 234 — 235. In order to give an idea of the inf^exi^ 

 bility of Kliyogg, in avoiding every thing which could 

 turn away his attention from his principal occupation 

 or introduce idlenefs, we may obferye before we attend 

 him into his houfe, that he has no bees. Without de- 

 nying the utihty of their honey and the inftrudlion to be 

 derived from their focial labors, he maJntalr-:?. Khat the^ 

 ^' ' cof?. 



