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as perfe(5t as when it was firll incrufted, tlio' 

 it may have lain locked up in that ftate a 

 tho'jfand or perhaps many thoufand years. 



Thefe vegetable Jloties have likevvife been 

 f:arried away and burnt as limestone. The 

 quantity of lime, however, produced from 

 them cannot be great ; but mixed with the 

 efies of the vegetables, a valuable manure 

 may neverthelefs be formed. 



In a fituation fo reclufe, it is no wonder 

 this valuable fource of manure fhould have 

 been in fome degree negle<fled. T'he bottom 

 of the dale which winds below it, docs not 

 appear to have been much benefited, either 

 bv the waters themfelves or the matter 

 which they have formed. The principal 

 part of that which has been taken away has 

 been carried up a winding road over the top 

 of the mountain to a ncip-hbourlno- dale 

 (Goadland) fomc three or four miles diftant. 



Over and above the difficulty and expence 

 of carriage, a ihilimg a load has been paid 

 to the leflee of the royalty for thefe calca- 

 reous fubdanccs • not for the purpole of ex- 

 periment, but in purfuance of cllablifhed 

 pradice ; a fufncient evidence this of theii: 

 "jirtiie as a manure. 



Lime. 



