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The name, however, would be a thing of 

 ho import, were it not indifcrimlnately ap- 

 plied to uncftuous earths in general, whether 

 they contain, or not, any portion of calcareous 

 matter. Nothing is " marl" which is not 

 white J for, notwithftanding the county has 

 been fo long and fo largely indebted to its 

 fertilizing quality, her hufbandmen, even in 

 this enlightened age, remain totally ignorant of 

 its diftinguifhing properties : through which 

 want of information much labour and expence 

 is frequently thrown away. 



One man feeing the good efFedt of the Fleg 

 clay, for inftance, concludes that all clays are 

 fertile ; and, finding a bed of flrong brick- 

 earth upon his farm, falls to work, at a great 

 expenee, te " claying :"^-while another, ob- 

 ferving this man's mifcarriage, concludes that 

 all clays are unprofitable; and, in confer 

 quence, is at an expenee^ equally ill-applied, 

 of fetching " marl'* from a great diftance ; 

 while he has, perhaps, in his own farm, if 

 judicioully fought after, an earth of a qua- 

 lity equally fertilizing with that he is throw- 

 ing away his time and his money in fetchinp-. 



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