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MANURES 



43 



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God's altar, pollute his holy places with dead men's bones, and pro- 

 duce by putrid exhalations contagious difeafes among thofe who fre- 

 quent his worOiip. But proper burial grounds fhould be confecrated 

 out of towns, and divided into two compartments, the earth from one 

 of which, faturated with animal decompofition, (hould be taken away 



once in ten or 



ty years, for the purpofes of 

 fand or clay, or lefs fertile foil, brought into its plac 



and 



A ^reat rife of the foil, from the remains of the bodies entombed 



in it. 



feen round the churches of almoft all populous towns 



fo 



have rendered it neceffary to defcend by feveral fteps into thofc 

 churches, which were originally built fo as to requii^e fleps to afcend 

 into them ; as may frequently be feen by th 



r' 



ture. 



bafe of the arch 



Nor would the removal of this earth, if the few bones, which 



mio-ht be found, were again buried for a further decompofition, be 



likely to (hock the relations of the deceafed ; as the fuperftition con- 



the earth, from which 



rofe, and 



which 



red about 



has gradually vdnifhed before the Ught of reafon; as occui 



thirty years ago in removing much rich earth from the clofe of the 



cathedral at Lichfield, and more lately in changing a burying ground 



at Shrewfbury 



both which were executed without fuperftiti 



terror, or popular commotion. 



4. Fourthly, a great wafte of the materials of fertility occurs in all 



countries, and cannot eafily be avoided, in the confumption by fire 



of fo much wood inflead of coal. Whence the mucilage, and other 



nutritious juices, which exift in the fire-wood, are decompofed into 



their elements ; and the carbon united with oxygen is difFufed in the 



atmofphere, and in part carried by the winds into the furrounding 



ocean; inftead of the manures occafioned by the flow decompofition 



of it upon or beneath the foil, or by the depredation of infeds ; 



which might fupply lefs decompofed nutriment to the abforbent roots 



of plants. 



This may be more eafy to conceive, if we compare the little vege- 



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