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ANURES 



^CT. X. S 



before, alTerts, that this does not happen, if it be moiftened with th 



fluid, which efcapes from dungh 



4 



the carbon, and to the fixed vegetable alk 



bich nfiay be owing both 



tains. 



di, which that fluid C( 



And alfo adds, that hme will prevent the cohefion or indu 



of claj, and therefore greatly improves argillaceous foils for 



the purpofes of 



8. Wh 



m 



ay abounds with vitriolic acid fo 

 becomes very unfriendly 



as 



• be converted 

 In this fl:ate it 



js believed much to counterad the procefs of putrefaaion in animal 



bod 



faid to have happened in fome burying ground 



This 



it may effea by uniting with the ammonia generated by putrefad 



the moment it is formed, or by preventing its produdion ; as wh 



the fait of Neville Holt water in Leicefterfliire, which I fuppofe 



alu 



mixed with very putrid blood 



I once witnefl!ed, the pu 



\ 



r:p 



tnd fcent was inftantly deftroyed, as I fuppofe the argillaceous earth 

 was precipitated. 



Where this acid or aluminous clay abounds,, it is believed' to check 

 the vegetation of trees as well as of herbaceous plants by eroding the 

 fine extremities of their roots, as mentioned in 



perhaps befl; 



Sea. II 



9 



h 



and 



in larger field 



be remedied in gardens by wood-aflies or foap-fud 



fweep 



fro 



by mixing lime, or chalk in powder, or the 



3ne, with thefe 



roads, which are repaired by limefl: 



mmous clays. Or laflly, wh 



with them fuch lime 

 lifts of equal parts 



can be procured,^ by m 



Breedon in LeicefterOiire, which 



a 



Tts of magnefia and calcareous earth, which wolilJ 

 thus fabricate what has been termed Epfom flilt, which is faid to be: 

 friendly to vegetation. 



Viri. MANURES BY SPONTANEOUS DECOMPOSITION. 



We (hall now confider more generally the decompofition of c 

 ized matter, which vegetable and animal bodies fpontaneoufl 



dergo. 



