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*f his, and a like assertion of Mr. lEos-* 

 WELl'sj p. 14, supported by similar ex* 

 pressibns of other writers, has given, to 

 those who are unacquainted with the 

 practice, too great reason to expect the 

 most extraordinary effects, from this use 

 of the pure elementary fluid, and to esteem 

 it, not as a vehicle or source of manure, but 

 ijti d manure of itself i This idea I am sorry 

 to see corroborated by Mr. Bailey in his 

 Treatise on Manures; when he says, " In 

 " floating, water is used ai a manure'* 



Mr. BosWELL's notion of the efficacy of 

 the friction of the water, arises, I presume, 

 from his observing that those parts of a 

 meadow are invariably the richest, on 

 which the water flows with the greMest 

 velocity. This inequality of fertility, 

 however, may be accounted for, on more 



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