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THUS much for the different Natures of Soils; now I will proceed 
to {peak fomething in relation to Afpects in general. 3 
SINCE that Mr. Hales in his Vegetable Staticks, p. 127. has fhewn 
the Probability of Rains and Dews being imbibed by Vegetables at their 
Leaves, in which are many crude Particles, which, when confin’d, or 
in two great a Quantity, are injurious to the Growth of Trees ; we 
muft therefore confider of fuch Afpeéts, that will admit the Sun’s In- 
fluence. to diffipate them before they become prejudicial. | 
THESE Crudities are firft diffipated from the Eaft and South-Eaft 
Walls, which laft declining about 20 Degrees, is the very beft Afpe 
for moft Kinds of Fruits: Next to this is the South and South-Welt ; and 
laft of all the Weft. And as the South-Weft and Wet Afpects retain 
the Crudities of the Dew longer in the Day (which oftentimes chills the 
Fruits) than the South-Eaft and South, fo. are their Fruits of a lower 
Flavour, and later ripe. = | 
THE Weft Afpect receives the Sun when ‘tis paft the Meridian, viz. 
about one o Clock, (tho’ very obliquely) which being late in the Day, 
thofe Crudities do therefore remain a long while before they are dif- 
perfed ; and ‘tis therefore that the Fruits of a Welt Afpedt -are eightor 
ten Days later in ripening, than thofe of the South-Eaft and South, 
. DIRECT Eaft Walls have the Crudicies of the Dew foon diffj- 
pated ; bur then they have but little of the Sun, for at eleven the 
Rays become very oblique, and the Heat very little, and foon after none 
at all. : | | 
BUT a direct Eaft Wall is far preferable to a dire& Welt Wall, 
becaufe the Heat of the Day comes gradually on it, and leaves it in its 
Meridian of Heat ; but a Weft Wall is only favour’d in the Violence 
of the Heat, by the Obliquity of the Sun’s Rays, as they firft fall 
thereon, which caufe the Heat to be much more gradual, than if they 
were to fall direét at their firft Onfet, 
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