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pounds 4 ounces +4-. A cubick foot of 

 water weighs nearly 62- pounds, which is 

 little more than half the fpecifick gravity 

 of earth. This was a dry feafon, with a 

 mixture of fome few mowers, fo that the 

 grafs-plat adjoining was not burnt up. 



At the fame time I dug up another cubick 

 foot of earth, from the bottom of the for- 

 mer; it weighed 106 pound 6 ounces-}- -J. 



I dug up alfo a third cubick foot of earth, 

 at the bottom of the two former $ it weighed 

 ill pounds -j--j. 



Thefe three feet depth were a good brick 

 earth, next to which was gravel, in which 

 at 2 feet depth, viz. 5 feet below the fur- 

 face of the earth, the fprings did then run. 



When the firft cubick foot of earth was 

 fo dry and dufty, as to be unfit for vegeta- 

 tion, I weighed it, and found it had loft 

 6 pounds -j- n ounces, or 184 cubick in- 

 ches of water, near y part of its bulk. 



Some days after, the fecond cubick foot 

 being drier than either the firft or third, 

 was decreaied in weight 10 pounds. 



The third cubick foot, bting very dry 

 and dufty, had loft 8 pounds 8 ounces, or 

 247 cubick inches, viz. } part of its 

 bulk. 



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