Chap. V. Of Tillage. 07 



By Dung we are limited to the Quantity of it we 

 can procure, which in moll Places is too fcanty : But 

 by Tillage, we can inlarge our Field of fubterranean 

 Pafture without Limitation, tho' the external Surface 

 of it be confin'd within narrow Bounds: Tillage may 

 extend the Earth's internal Superficies, in proportion 

 to the Divifion of its Parts ; and as Divifion is infi- 

 nite, fo may that Superficies be. 



Every Time the Earth is broken by any Sort of 

 Tillage, or Divifion, there mufl arife fome new Su- 

 perficies of the broken Parts, which never has been 

 open before. For when the Parts of Earth are once 

 united and incorporated together, 'tis morally impof- 

 fible, that they, or any of them, mould be broken 

 again, only in the fame Places ; for to do that, fuch 

 Parts mud have again the fame numerical Figures and 

 Dimenfions they had before fuch Breaking, which 

 even by an infinite Divifion could never be likely to 

 happen : As the Letters of a Diftichon, cut out and 

 mixt, if they mould be thrown up never fo often, 

 would never be likely to fall into the fame Order and 

 Pofition with one another, foas to recompofe the fame 

 Diftich. 



Although the internal Superficies may have 

 been drain'd by a preceding Crop, and the next 

 Plowing may move many of the before divided 

 Parts, without new- breaking them ; yet fuch as 

 are new-broken, have, at fuch Places where they 

 are fo broken, a new Superficies, which never was, 

 or did exift before 1 becaufe we cannot reafonably 

 fuppofe, that any of thofe Parts can have in all places 

 (if in any- Places) the fame Figure and Dimenfions 

 twice. 



For as Matter is divifible ad infinitum, the 



Places or Lines whereat 'tis fo divifible, mud be, in 



relation to Number, infinite, that is to fay, without 



Number ; and muft have at every Divifion Super- 



D 3 ficics 



