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ADDITIONAL NOTES. 



drink ale to excefs 

 cxcefs, acquire the 



acqu 



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gra 



thofe, who drink wine to 



re the gout ; and the drinkers of fpirits die of the drop- 

 but it is the cuftom of moft of the inebriates of this country to 



begin their unfortunate career with the firfl:, and terminate it with 

 the laft. 



12. To he inferted at the end of Se^. X. 6. B. 



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An important paper concerning lime is this year publifhed in the 

 Philofophical Tr^nfadions by Mr.Tennant, who having been inform- 

 ed, that two kinds of lime were ufed in agriculture, which differed 

 greatly m their effeas, one of which it was neceflary to ufe fparino-- 

 iy, and to fpread very evenly over the land ; for it was faid, that a 

 large proportion of it diminilhed the fertility of the foil ; and that 

 wherever a heap of it had been left on one fpot, all vegetation was 

 prevented for many years. And that of this kind of lime fifty or fixty 



bufhels on afi acre were 



much as could be ufed with ad 



"while of the othei* fort of lime a large quantity was 



o 



found 



be inj 



and that the fpots, which were entirely covered with 



It, became remarkably fertile, inflcad of being rendered barren. 

 Mr. Tennant having analyfed thofe two kinds of lime found that 



the latter confifled folely of 



earth 



but that the form 



contained two parts of magnefia with three parts of calcareous earth 



He afterwards obferved, that though vegetable 



feeds would grow 



equally well in both thefe kinds of limeftone, when fimply reduced 

 to powder ; yet that, when they were calcined fo as to become lime, 

 and both of them ftrewed about the tenth of an inch thick on o-ar- 

 den mould, that the magnefian lime prevented nearly all the feeds 

 which had been fowed, from coming up ; while no injury was ocea- 

 fioned by the calcareous lime ufed in the fame manner. 



This important difcovery feems to explain the caufe of fuch variety 



of opinion about the ufe of lime, which fome have believed to be o£ 



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