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This is all the moors want, they abound 

 with natural fertility, but require the af- 

 liftance of lime fpeedily to render it fit for 

 the produ6lion of new vegetables. 



That thefe moory foils are abundantly 

 fraught with oleaginous matter, cannot be 

 doubted, from this circumftance. It is a 

 common cuftora, and has been fo for many 

 years, with thofe farmers who cultivate 

 their foil, to lime their land both arable 

 and grafs every year, if they can get it 

 cheap; and this, whether they dung thejii 

 or not. Now, all writers agree, that per- 

 petual liming of common foils will reduce 

 them, alnofl: lo a caput moj'tuiim, uniefs a 

 regular acceiFion of dung be alfo gained. 

 But on moor foils, the benefit of thefe 

 repeated limings are indifputable ; and the 

 farmers from long experience afiert, that 

 you can fcarcely lay on too much. Now, 

 let me a(k thofe gentlemen, who affect to 

 call the moors pooi- land, what they think 

 of this fact ? Is it not the flrongefl: proof 

 imaginable, that the foil is an aftual 

 dunghill ? That it is fo fraught with ferti- 

 lity, you can hardly dellioy it ? 



But there are iome other' general cir- 

 cumftaiices concerning lime upon moors, 



which 



