* much a 
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DIG 
executed in ai autumnal or winter feafons, being well ridged 
or-laid up, fo as to be fully expofed to the a@tion and influ- 
ence of froft and other caufes, and be thereby brought into a 
proper condition for being levelled down and fown or plant- 
ed upon in the early {pring months. 
It is a beneficial practice in fome cafes, in order to bring 
new land of this fort into a fuitable ftate of preparation for 
a reception of crops, particularly where the under ftratum 
- fub-foii is of the more rich friable kind, to have it 
preiches over, paring off the furface, and turning it to tie 
plants mult become very unfit r growth ; while the 
more rich furface vegetable cara will be placed out of 
their reach and be lott. 
Work of this kind may be performed cither in oe autum- 
nal or {pring months, but the former ts moftl better ; 
in the more adhefive foils, however, it fhould te says be per- 
formed when the weather is dry, as under other circum- 
{tances the mould 1s liable to become sampy and uneven, and 
of courfe unht for the putting in of cro 
In the performance of the fir mote, or that of plain 
re di to then proceeding 
fecond courfe acrofs as before toring the different 
{pits of earth in a clean, neat, even manner into the former 
opening, continuing the fame eae aie till the whole 
is dug over, breaking and reducing the lumps and clods as 
8 poflible, being careful to preferve a ie even furface, 
having a proper regard to fuch hollows as may be prefent. 
The earth taken. out from the firit opening or trench will 
ferve to fill up and render the laft even and level; and when 
dung is applied, it may either be fpread evenly over the fur- 
ace and be a ttl turned in, 
trench, - co 
This i ism 
is 
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bear-bind, and others of a fimilar kind, fhould ail be pene 
picked out, as they multiply exceedingly by being divided ; 
and thofe which-are upon the furface the ground be well 
turned to the botton of the foimiee tren 
ut in the latter, or Oo method of digging, the ufual 
of the 
mo earth thus taken 
t to the contrary os as noticed above, ya or the purpofe 
ae filling up the laft trench; then a fecond trench 
in the fame manner aie having ced off 
weeds, aa ere the foil is ‘Tiff or not of great rey 
The dung, in this method of digging, where it is performed 
- the depth only of one i ae a be depofited in the a 
om; but where two are ufed, it fhoul 
eres upon the firft init, ea it has been dug off, and 
DIG 
placed in the bottom of the former trench, as in this way it 
will not be buried to too great a depth, which, under other 
circumftances, would be the cafe 
the trench digging of garden ground may like- 
wife be performed either in a level furfece, asin the commen 
manner of digging, or in the rough ridged mode: 
es is the beft method where imme ediate fowing is in- 
ended ; ia the latrer commonly where the Jand ts to re- 
main fome time previous to its being cropped, as by this 
means it wil derive the mott adventage from ae eae of 
the atmofphere and the action of froit, a re fulty ree 
duced in its particles, fo as to only resi lacie down at 
the time of fowing or putting in t n cafes, how- 
ever, where the foils are of a ny aa gravelly, or fandy 
quality, as they 
ca , and do not fland meh In ne 
ould appear the beft method to dig Gan conftartly in 
ai or level maaner, as by fuch means the effeQs of eX. 
halation and the diffipation of their moifture may be the 
meft effectually counteracted, 
All forts of digging and levelling down of garden ground 
fhould likewife, efpecially in the fiiffer forts of foil, he ex- 
ecuted, when the land is in a condition fomewhat inclining 
to drynele, as it can never be done to benefit when in a moi it 
cloggy fituation. 
See Mini 
ott ion of America, in 
; feven 
m Warren, in Rhode nin nd, 
The tows thip contains 236 coe, and 1666 a 
DIGIT, Dicirus, in Anatomy. See Fix 
Dict, in Arithmetic, fignifies an integer, or ate: under 
ten 5 a8 1,2, 3. 4, 5,6, 7; 8, 9. 
« Dicert, in Aftron omy, 1s the meafure by which we eftimate 
eclipfes: amounting to the twelfth part of the diameter of the 
luminary eclipfe 
e diameter of tite body, or difk, of the fun or moon, is 
divided into twelve parts, called digits ; and an eclipfe is faid 
to be often digits, when ten of thofe parts are 
digits, Wolfius, and 
precifely 12; and 
frequently the cafe in lunar eclipfes, then more than 12 digits 
are faid to be eclipfed. 
Dicir is mg a meafure taken from the breadth of the 
finger. A digit is properly three-fourths of an inch, an 
equivalent to four grains of barley, laid breadth-wife, fo as to 
touch each ot 
DIGITALIS, in Anatomy, a ihe applied to the ar- 
teries and nerves Shae fingers and toe 
1giTaLes Volar rteria, are ee branches seg 
from the arcus fupericiale volz of the ulnar artery: 
ARTERIES, mr 
Dicirau Pk, are three fimilar arteries in the foot, 
given off aes the arcus plantaris profundus, See Arte. 
RIES. 
Dicirares Nervi, or the nerves of the fingers, are of ae 
clafles. ‘The thumb, and each finger, has a large branc 
running along both its radial and ulnar fide, towards a 
palmar furface, to the extremity of the organ. Thefe 
larger digital nerves are aig by the median and uinar 
e digital arteries. 
» are fupplie 
ing fi 
nerve. The dorfal furfaces cr ihe fingers hae a ee lar fup- 
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