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tonclude, from thiSj that the waters under 

 tonfideration do not contain a fufficient 

 quantity of the calcareous principle, to 

 enable them to produce thie eifecft which 

 we are delirous'to account for. Indeed, it 

 is not a knowledge of the component parts 

 of the filtering ftratum, but of thbfe of the 

 waters themfelveSi which is moft defirable. 

 Accurate analyses of waters, 

 whofe efFedts OiVtknoiv?!, as manures, are 

 very much to be defired. That different 

 waters are as various, in their effefts 011 

 vegetation, as diflind: vegetable and animal 

 fubftances are, muft be evident to every one 

 who has made extenlive obfervations on . 

 thefe efFe(-ls. And Chemistry cannot 

 beflow on Agriculture more valuable 

 affiftance, than in profeeuting enquiries of 

 this nature. 



The Hay harvest of Weft Devon- 

 fhire has little to recommend it, as a pattern 

 to other Diftrids. 



The mowing is, in general, ill done. 



The lithe is fhort, and laid in, too near the 



handle. The unavoidable confequence is^ 



the work goes on flowly, or a line of uncut 



Vol, I. P herbage 



