OIL. 
produce waves, which are to be made by continually aGting 
upon ee enlarging thofe elements, and thus the whole pond 
is caim 
Upon 
furf, which fometimes ae the landing on a lee-fhore 
angerous, or impractica 
o this purpofe we are Sar rmed that the captain of a 
a ftor 
Dutch Faft India fhi rm, found 
over her, w 
in iieang: her. 
Ce 
sae 
Phil. Tranf. ‘el. Ixiv. part. 2. p- 4455 
L, in oe a fatty unQuous material, ei 
from animal as well as vegetable fubftances. matters 
are ating ciheds into different kinds, as ethereal or “eflentiel, 
and fat or fixed oils: the former are acrid, volatile, odorife- 
rous, and exift in the plants in the fame ftates in which they 
are found; while the latter are fixed, deftitute of odour, and 
mild to the tafte. aft, 7 kept a long time, cor- 
rupt and become rancid. not act upon earths, but 
readily combine with alkaline felts, with which when cauftic 
they form vegetable foa 
Though thefe matters cannot be employed by the farmers 
in their imple ftates, as being too expenfive, and having ra- 
ther a noxious or poifonous effect, than a beneficial one on the 
growth of plants, they may frequently be ufed in the con- 
dition of compofts with advantage, as has been the cafe in 
the application of various of the groffer forts of materials of 
this nature, fuch as thofe of whale blubber, the bottoms 
and refufe of oil cafke, &c. when blended with earthy ma- 
terials, fo as to be laid upon the land in an even and regular 
manner. And in this ftate of combination they have been 
found, by the experiments of on Sulivat oes G form 
he 
bottoms or foots of oil, and a mh thick South- fea whale 
eil, in ud whole fixty gallons, i is thus ftate 
g a platform or bottom of twenty ‘loads of mould, 
with alt loads of dung on it, he carried on three loads of 
ays, when it 
drilled an bale; two bufhels to the acre; the crop came 
up in a moft even and beautiful manner ; every feed was up 
ii oe hours of each other; all was ripe at the 
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fame time, and, from a couple of months after feed-time to 
harveft, was rated by all who faw it, and it was feen by many, 
s a fixty bufhel cro 
ftated the crop to be fixty bufhels ; but to wave ” poffibility 
of difpute or doubt, he is content to flate the crop at feven 
quarters ger acre. Ass to the rene of the bey a oo 
here cite the opinion of one aa he vere eminent brewers in 
London, who faw th , and declared he would 
ick, 
Bakewell being afked his opinion of the value of the land, if 
he does not miltake, valued i it at 18d. per acre, but turning to 
the e crop, and d defir ing h 
that the oats fuffered much from them; when they were 
ploughing for the barley the firft time, he obferved many 
turned up by the plough, when a diftant ray of hope in- 
ftantly darted upon his _ that the foil in its then ftate, 
or from its ftrong efluvium, might prove obnoxious to them, 
and he is bappy in yee that the barley did not fuffer from 
them in the 
It is rani fated, that he is trying the experiment in 
Hamphhire, having laft autumn made up a dunghill, with 
twenty gallons of oil, on one-third of it for a fix-acre field, 
ee is now drilled with peafe. 
e concludes by obferving, that it is well known 
that all animal fubftances, in a ftate of corruption, wonder- 
ully promote ye ace and are the a€tual food of plants, 
The whale-oil which he ufed is an animal per pee seh 
the richeft part of the animal; whether he ufed e or 
what is the proper quantity per acre, experience aol point 
outs fay he ufed eight loads of mould, three or four loads 
of dung, and twelve gallons of whale-oil ger acre. That 
acts as a poifon he cannot d 
whic 
hole ade by the dibble at the pai a ga were evi- 
dently near as big again as the o See Com 
O ‘ake, the cake which remains after ‘the oil has been 
me other forts of feeds. 
