

•efr 



^'5- 



erve 



^^ flu-M; 



Mil, 



uidit 



e 



3 



) 



forth 



ftances 



PllN 



jSlld 



► in dri 



•■ler and 



of Chi 



iiia 



u 



'■ough hills 



I 



flooding land 



»1 fuftufion of 



the purpofes 



: bring 



^3 aloDj 



yver 



J ring fprings, 



ly be detefied 



ftrata of 



fait of tartar; 



f ; and a por* 



Prieftley,an^ 



Dr. Home 



[found by Hs 

 uch greater 



m 



ea 



lis 



due penc- 

 beconies 



lilts ; 



but 



lifhed by 



little 



(Treat 







fsto 



00 



arits 2S 



watef 



on 



\ve 



uati^ 



Sect. X. 3. 7 



MANURES 



99 



quatic and amphibious animals, and which differ from each oth 



fifh and feals from quadruped 



Where land abounds 

 fubterraneous or fuperficial 

 had recourfe 



s 



much with moifture, the art of making 



d 



defcribed in Se£t. XI 



mufl be 



But where thefe are not executed, in lands not very 

 ftTt"i"s thought advantageous to fow the crops early before the wet 

 feafon, fince corn will bear much more moifture after it has (hot from 

 the feed, than the feed will bear ; as the feed is lefs tenacious of life, 

 and in confequence more liable to putrify. The crops (hould like- 

 wife befown or planted thinner, and be reaped early in the feafon, as 

 the exclufion of the air by thick foliage, and the greater dampnefs of 

 the autumn, are liable to generate mildew in moift fit 

 haps it fhould be added, that fowing early 



Per 



d the confequent reap 



ly, has fo many advantages 



feafon s on all lands, th 



may 



be univerfally recommended 



d that in wet lands 



it might be very advantageous to cultivate crops by tranfplar 

 in the'' vernal months, having previoufly fowed the feed in d 



warmer fitu 



See Sea. XVI. 8 



which wafh off much of 



7. Another injury in this climate occafioned by too great a quan 



tity of water arifes from hafty (how 

 the decompofing animal and vegetable recrements, which are foluble 

 or diffufible in water, and carry them down the rivers into the fea. 

 From the fides of hills this damage is accomph(hed by fmall (howers, 

 on which account all Hoping grounds when applied to agriculture 



(hould be ploughed horizontally, as by the ridges and furrows th 



produced the fmaller (h 



of rain will not pafs fo haflily off, as 



when they are ploughed vertically. 



A queftion here occurs, whether it be advantageous to plough level 



plains into ridges and furrows 



? the Chinefe 



b 



faid never to divide 



th 



their fields into riHges and furrows, but to plant tneir grain on an 

 even furface. Embafly to China by fir G. Staunton, Vol. ill. p. 197, 



8vo. edit. Some think it an error to fuppofe, that any increafe of 



crop 



