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" this way it certainly operates in the 

 " earth by diflblving all animal and dry 

 *' vegetable fubftances, and converting 

 " them to the nourifliment of vegetables, 

 " at leafl: fooner than they otherwise would 

 " be *." In another place, " By mixing 

 " itfelf with the oleaginous particles of the 

 ** foil, and converting them to the nou- 

 " rifliment of plants, lime becomes in this 

 *' fenfe, provocative to the foil -f" 



Now is it not fufficiently evident, from 

 this defcription of lime, that the effect 

 of it on a foil in the rich flate of nature, 

 that mufl: abound with oil, muft be very 

 great. It is mifchievous upon worn out 

 land J for the fame reafon it is excellent on 

 new. But even then it is advifable, if 



dung is added which is the addition of 



what the moory foil contains in the greateft 

 plenty. Further, lime dilFolves all vege- 

 table fubflances, and prepares them for the 

 nourifhment of plants: this is an opera- 

 tion of the greateft confequence, on moors 

 which feem to confift of fcarcely any thing 

 elfe. Lime is a provocative to the {oil. 



* Ibid. 70. 

 f Mid, 72. 



This 



