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M A N U R E- S. 



Sect. X. 6. 6. 



the earth beneath 



d this moift 



th 



abforbed 



phatics of the roots of vegetables. 

 Thirdly, by mixing lime with 



lym 



fs cohefi 



d thus to admit of th 



by vegetable fibres 



it is believed to make them 

 being more eafily penetrated 



Fourthly, a mixture of lime with claydeftroys its fuperabundancy 

 of acid, if fuch exifts ; and by uniting with it converts it into gypfum> 

 or alabafter. 



Fifthly, when lime is mixed with a compofl of foil and manure, 

 which is in the flate of generating nitrous acid, it arrets the acid as 



it forms, and prod 



a calcareous nitre, and thus prev 



both 



exhalation and its eafy 



And 



d 



and 

 'ith 



th 



feds 



hich almofi 



laftly, frefh Hme deftroys worms, fna 

 with which it happens to come in contadl, ai 

 every foil abounds. 



6. The various properties of llfiie above defcribed account for the 

 great ufes of it on almofi all lands ; except perhaps fome of thofe 

 which already abound with calcareous earth. 



On riding from Beckingham to Sleaford, and from thence to Lin- 

 coln, I was informed by three or four farmers, that lime had been 



tried, but was believed to be of 



fervice in that country 



Nor 



was I furprifed at this obfervation, as I had fcea fragments of allu- 

 vial limeftone thrown out of every ditch on the road, which was of a 

 loofe texture, confining of calcareous fand, like the Ketton limeftone, 

 rounded by fridion, before it was confolidated into a mafs, the up- 

 per furface of which was broken into fragments, when it was raifed 

 from the fea by fubterraneous fires, or by its cooling from a hot flate 



drying from a moill: 

 Thus, as I had ridden over one fingle alluvial limeftone abov 



mil 



broad and above twenty 



o 



th 



broken furface of 



w 



hich 



appeared in the bottom of almoft every ditch, I concluded, that the 



foil muft be calcareous earth mixed only with fome animal and ve- 



gctable 



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