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Sect.X. II. I. 



MANURES. 



241 



brought to market, and purchafed for the pnrpofe of peopl 

 floods on their rice grounds with fifh, part of which becom 



the 



ct\i to be fried and eaten by the land cultivator; and the reft 



J foil, when the floods are drawn 



ferves the purpofe of fertilizing the 



off, by their death and confequent decompofit 



XI. PRESERVATION OF MANURES. 



1." The fertility of all countries depends on the faving and ufing 

 thofe kinds of matter, which are fit for the reprodu6lion of organiz« 

 ed bodies. There is a proverb in China, that for this purpofe a wife 

 man faves even the parings of his nails, and the clippings of his hair. 



One great wafte of manure in this country, and in moft others, 



is from the frequent rains wafliing down the difFufible and foluble 



parts of the foil into the muddy rivers ; fo that every flood from 



fuddcn (bowers carries into the fea many thoufand pounds worth of 



the matter of fertility ; and thus diminifhes fo much the food of ter-' 

 reflrial animals, however it may add to the fuftenance of marine 



The Delta of Egypt, and a diflri6l in South America near 



ones. 



the foot of the Andes mentioned by Ulloa, are faid by the fituation 

 of the furrounding country to be free from rain, though they have 

 frequent dews ; and to this circumflance they may in part owe their 

 increaling fertility. 



In this country the fnow-floods, which occur after a continued 

 froft, are lefs injurious than thofe from rains ; as the ftreams of wa- 

 ter from the upper furface of the diffolving ice flows over the under 

 furface of it not yet diflblved ; and the foil is not agitated as in rain 

 by the percuflion of the defcending drops; infomuch that in fnow- 

 floods the rivers are fcarcely muddy ; whence thefe floods may be 



readily diflinguifhed from land-floods by the eye, and are much lefs 

 injurious. 



Great attention (hould therefore be (hewn to the preventing fmall 



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