The TraBical Kitchen Gardiner, 



who have taken their obfervations from 

 the hydrophanticks or difcoverers of 

 water, aver, and fo indeed common ex- 

 perience confirms, that flats and exten- 

 five plains are commonly the mofl: def- 

 titute of water, as the rifing gromids 

 very fcldom fail of abounding there- 

 with, and thofe eminences that are mofl 

 fliadcd with trees have generally the 

 greatcft fhare thereof : And it is worthy 

 remark, that the waters that arc found 

 in the plains arc mofl: commonly brackiflij 

 whereas thofe that are difcovcr'd in an 

 eminence are generally fweet, unlefs they 

 arc changed by feme accidental caufe, 

 as fait, nitre, allum, fulphur, or the 

 like. How agreeable thefe reafonings 

 are to the advantage or difadvantage of 

 water for gardens, time only muft dif- 

 cover. But to proceed with our inge- 

 nious author, the natural caufe of the 

 aforegoing effeds may thus be aflign'd : 

 The fun (fays he) always attrads the 

 fmalleft and lightcft particles out of the 

 water towards it felf, and leaves the 

 grofleft fubfiding 5 wherefore the fun ly- 

 ing all day upon the plains, and the 

 water being by its natural level the lefs 

 nioving, exhales the moifture, and dif- 



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