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appears to be, from what is at prefent pub- 

 licly known on the fubjed, the incorpo- 

 ration of the two fubftances, into one 

 homogeneous mafs ; or, at leaft, to mix 

 the Lime, in a ftate of powder, with fome 

 portion of foil, in order to feparate its 

 particles, and prevent their adhering in 

 lumpsj and returning, in this form, to a 

 ftate of chalk or marl : for although Lime 

 reduced to that ftate may not be loft to the 

 foil, as a manure, it probably does not ad: 

 as Lmie, but as Marl \ and, of courfe, a 

 given quantity of Lime, lajd on in whole 

 ftones or large fragments, will not produce 

 the fame effed, in a given time, as it would 

 have done, had it been more evenly dif- 

 tributed,-^-more mechanically affimilated 

 with the foil* 



There are two widely differing methods 

 of effedinsr this mechanical union. The 

 one is to reduce the foil to a fine tilth j to 

 fpread the Lime evenly over it, in a ftate 

 of powder ; and to mix. them together, 



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the whitenefs of the Lime difappears : 

 fuffering them to remain in this ftate, if 

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