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coming from the heavens, very quickly per- 

 colates, thro' both their fuperficies and fub- 

 latent parts, and with it the vegetating par- 

 ticles therein contained. 



Again in their reverfe, viz, in a foil 

 too clofely compacted, nor nitrous fnov^ 

 water in winter 5 nor folar heat in fummer, 

 can find admittance ; infomuch that no plant 

 that roots deep, as the Oak is known to do, 

 can thrive therein. 



But the territories I fhould choofe for 

 thefe foreftian kings underground, (and they 

 are beft found out by digging, or boring) is, 

 where the fame is four foot deep, and the 

 deeper the better, a kindly clay — Or fat 

 loam^ — Or marl — Wherein the moifture rea- 

 dily enough enters, and long enough refides, 

 bounteoufly to fupport the thirtieft plants, 

 throughout the fummer, or even autumnal 

 fcorching heats. And lands proper enough, 

 may likely be found in every county in Eng- 

 land of that kind : and whofe fuperficies is 

 not naturally over kindly, either for grafs 

 or grain ; and confequently of no very high 

 eftimation otherways. 



Besides 



