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the firft , in the third it only grew by fpots, 

 for part of it was killed where the great- 

 eft quantity of water fell 5 and the fourth 

 was quite brown for a greater compafs 

 than the third : by which it appeared, that 

 an ounce of fait in a gallon of water had 

 a better effeft than the water had alone ; 

 and that three ounces of fait mixt with a 

 gallon of water was more than the grafs 

 could immediately receive -, but the fourth 

 place in the enfaing fpring was the mofl 

 fertile of them all, which, v/as ov/ing to 

 the winter 'sL moifture diluting the falts. 



I {hewed him alfo in the fame dry feafon, 

 a heap of afiies where weeds had fome 

 fmall time before been burnt, which v/as 

 much moifter in a morning by the dews 

 than the foil near it, and continued fo 

 longer in the day : upon v/hich he thought 

 and declared, that auies were neither hot 

 nor dry, but of qualities quite contrary 5 

 and that fait was of great fervice to land, 

 how dry foever, as appeared by the com- 

 mon fait and wat.^' ufed as belcre men- 

 tioned. 



If what I have advanced with rcirard to 



falts, &c. appears not reafoiiable to fome 



C penons. 



