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 -^li Is fet 



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e 



'^t the fa, 

 ^cent fixed al- 



'^t by twofoi 

 :d alkali 



I unitB 



the oil unites 



Icareous earti 



bo»e mentioD" 



als and vegeti- 



mfiderablepart 



Ithout, or 



alogy of jl 



Tl W 



an 



:ble or a 



mi 



■ another vef 



matter 



\ 



.ch may 



notbt 





'om its pr 



, or upon o; 

 deftroying'"^ 

 thus rea^cj 



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un 



r 



Sect. X. 6. 5 



MANURES 



7 



b 



th forwards t"he putrefaa 



f 



mixtirre. of 



animal and vegetable matter. But that pure Ume, though it feemed 

 to prevent putrefaaion, deftroyed or diffolved the texture of the tie^ 

 Thus I am informed, that a mixture 



of lim 



ith oak -bark 



ft 



the tanner has extraded from it Vv^hatever is folubl 



two or three months reduce it to a fi 



black earth ; which if only 



laid in heaps, would require as many years to efFed by its own fp 



fermentation or putrefaft 



Th 



ffed of lime 



particularly ad 

 broken up 



to newly enclof-d common 



wh 



a be 

 firft 



Mr. Davis, in the papers of the Society of Arts, Vol. XVI. p 



affe 



common, which had been previoufly covered with 



eath, b 



other wife very ba 



the efFea of lime was very 



dvantageous for about ten years, during 



hich time the vegetable 



might be fuppofed 



have been diflblved 



d 



pended 



but 



that a fecond liming he obferved produced no good efFea. It is p 



bable the good efFea might 



be fo 



& 



but I (hould doubt th 



cumilance of its producing no good effea at all. 



Mr. Browne of Derby has alfo an ingenious paper in the' tranfac 



f the Society of Arts 



hich he aflerts, th 



D 



d on heaps and Gratified with frefli lime, are quickly 



decompofed, even in a few day 



f the vegetables 



o 



w i til 



fi 



The heat occafioned by the moif 

 the lime I fuppofe quickens the 

 s, and produces charcoal in con- 

 that frequently produced in new 



fermentation of the vegetable j 



fequence of combuftion, 



hayaacks, which if air be admitted burfl into flame. 



Secondly, lime for many months continues to attraa moiflure from 

 the air or earth ; which it deprives I fuppofe of carbonic 



d. and 



then fuffers it to exhale 



o 



as is 



fe 



on the plaftered walls of 



ew houfes. On this account it muft be advantageous when mixed 



ith dry or fandy foils, as it attraas moiflure from the air abov 



Ff 



the 



