The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner. 



and culinary ufcs, are a certain demon- 

 ftration of the truth of this affertion. 



What I fliall add more as to the ad- 

 vantage or difadvantage of good or bad 

 water, fliall be deduced from the obfer- 

 vations of that laborious and very cu- 

 rious enquirer into natural and vegeta- 

 tive philofophy, Dr. Woodward:, who 

 in that elaborate and curious eflay of 

 his on vegetation, has fet down ahiioft 

 all that is neceffary on this fubjed 5 I 

 mean, as to the terreilrial properties 

 with which water of all kinds is im- 

 pregnated, which, with him, every planter 

 muft agree, is more or lefs conducive 

 to vegetation, as the feveral forts of wa- 

 ter abounds more or lefs therewith j of 

 which the Dodor s experiments made 

 on Cataptitia minor y ^c, are undeniable 

 inftances. This learned gentleman tells 

 us, the * ancients feemed to be of opi- 

 nion, that the earth only, without any 

 other alliftance, conftituted and formed 

 all vegetables j but that fome of the 

 moderns, perhaps with too much hafte, 

 afcrib'd all to watery and that the great 



* Faslix Horti pofitio eft cui leniter inclinata planities, 

 minimus curfus aquae fiuentis, per fpatia difcreta derivat. 

 lalkd. de re Kufitc. lib, i.f.-^Z* 



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