Vegetable Staticks. j i 



fture nature had provided in the earth , ( a- 

 gainft the dry fummer feafon,) that might 

 anfwer this great expence of it, which is fo 

 neceflfary for the production and fupport of 

 vegetables. 



July 31. 1724. I dug up a cubick foot of 

 earth in an alley, which was very little tram- 

 pled on 5 it weighed ( after deducting the 

 weight of the containing veffel ) 1 04 pounds 

 -J- 4 ounces -f- f . A cubick foot of water 

 weighs 59 -}- i, which is little more than half 

 the fpecifick gravity of earth. This was a 

 dry feafon, with a mixture of fome few fhow- 

 ers , fo that the grafs-plat adjoyning was not 

 burnt up. 



At the fame time I dug up another cu- 

 bick foot of earth, from the bottom of the 

 former, it weighed 106 pound -J- 6 ounces?' 



4-f- 



I dug up alfo a third cubick foot of earth,- 

 at the bottom of the two former, it weighed 

 in pounds -J- f . 



Thefe three feet depth were a good brick 

 earth, next to which was gravel, in which 

 at 2 feet depth, viz. 5 feet below the fur- 

 face of the earth, the fprings did then run. 



When the firft cubick foot of earth w r as 

 E z £4 



