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MANURES. 



Sect. X. ii. 2. 



For th 



fhowers from wafhing away the foluble parts 6f good foil. 



purpofe all hills fhonld be ploughed horizontally, and not in afcend- 



ingand defcending furrows. Defcending plains of grafs-ground might 



Ifo be laid with horizontal ridges and depre 



by which ma- 



nagement fhowers will lie a few hours in the horizontal furrows or 

 depreffions, and either exhale or foak into the ground ; and in very wet 

 feafons thefe may eafily by the fpade be opened into each other, if the 



water is found to lie too long upon them, fo as to produce too much 

 cold by its evaporation, or too great foftnefs by its abforption into 



the foil. 



2. 



Secondly, the manures of 



/ns and cities, which are 

 d away by foughs into th 



left buried in deep wells, or carrii 

 fhould be removed by a police, which is faid to exift in China ;^ and 



intervals of time for the purpofes of 



ied 



f 



at ftated 



don 



fervoirs at th 



agriculture ; which might be performed in the 



Edinburgh ; or by means of large bafons or n 



mities of the common (hores, or foughs for the reception of the ma 



nure, before it is waflied into rivers. See Embafly to China by fi 



G. Staunton, Vol. III. p. 308, 8vo. edit. 



It has been believed by fome writers in the American Medical Re- 

 pofitory, that the peftilential fever, which has of late infefted that 

 country, was in part produced or propagated by the filth of the flreets 

 of New York. Dr. S. L. Mitchill adds to his chemical remarks on 



" it muft be welcome intelligence, that the collefled 



manures 



mafs of nuifance, which we are now with fuch happy fuccefs en- 

 gaged in removing from the city of New York, is convertible by the 



powers of vegetation from poifon to wholefome articles of food ; and 

 thus the purity and healthinefs of the towns may contribute to the 

 thriftinefs and wealth of the furrounding country.'* Medical Journal, 



No. I. 



3. Thirdly, there fhould be no burial places in churches or in 



church-yardsj w,here the monuments of departed finners {houlder 



God's 



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