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Sect. X. 6. 6 



MANURES 



^ 



.etable recrements, and that an addition of pure lime could p^oba% 

 fot be of much advantage to the vegetables it fupported. And h 

 T If f. mnft occur in thofe fituations, where the furface of the 



limeflone 



th 



IS 



which h 



been diffolved in water in th 



o 



f the world 



d again depofited 



Yet even in fome fcls, which abound in calcareous earth, ume 



efleemed to be of fervi 



hich may be owing both to 



fl 



quality, and to its being fo finely pulverized 



For a part of 



hich combines with it after calcination, gives out fo much heat 



as to convert 



P 



of it into fleam 



ch breaks the cal 



ap 



.u.ed lime-lumps into a moll fubtile and impalpable powder 

 proaching even to fluidity, as mentioned in No. 4. 4- of this Sed.on 

 In the parifh of Hartington in Derbyfhire there is a flratum of 

 hard limeftone, or marble, as I am informed, immediately beneath a 



ch in many places peeps through it ; yet on 



{hallo 

 fom 



foil, and 



of this land an ingenious adive agricultor has laid lime on th 



t) 



rafs in o-reat quantity with prodigious advantage 



d that h 



lly to improve by this means a 



{iderable 



of 



land 



(h 



The difference between the hard limeflone of this part of Derby- 

 re and the foft fand-formed limeflone about Lincoln Heath and 



Sleaford, may rend 

 with calcareous earth 



th 



phoric acid 



rnbent foil to be more or lefs mixed 



they may abound more or lefs with phof- 



But it may 



mentioned in No. 5. 5. of this Sed 



have happened, that fome prejudices of the farmers, who gave me the 

 information, might have led them to condemn the ufe of hme about 

 Sleaford and Lincoln ; and I fhould again recommend it to their fe- 



rious attention. r • 1 ' 1 i. r 



Another improper fituatlon for the ufe of lime is faid to be on thofe 



lands, which are too wet, and which therefore fhould be previoufly 

 drained ; otherwife the lime is faid to coalefce into a kind of mortar. 



Ff2 



and 



