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RED AEYL ABR HE firft and moft neceflary Work to be done, before 
. ea4| — we begin our Plantations, is, Either to make Choice 
_ of a proper Soil, or prepare fuch.as we haye, fit for 
the Reception of thofe Fruits which we defire to 
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ALL the feveral Kinds of Soils may be reduced to Three, viz. : 
Sand, - Loam, and Clay ; but ‘tis my Belief, that Sand (only) is a 
the pure primitive Earth, afd all others but Com jounds : For, as 
‘Mr. Bradley juftly obferves in his Works of Nature, That Sand being 
moiften’d with Water, and worked in the Hand to a Lump, and afterwards 
‘dried in the Sun, will, when thoroughly dried, fall down into a 
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