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of a very fandy Soy!, and only manured with Sea-wrack, I 
have a piece of Land in LeMmm-Parfjb^ that yields continu- 
ally every year plentiful crops of Barley, without ever having 
fo much as one load of Manure, or any kind of addition laid 
on it: And this it hath done pad memory. I have feen the 
Corn of it feveral years; nor doth the Ground grow lefs , nor 
is it exhaufted by yielding fuch plenty of Corn and Scratv^ 
though it receives no addition. Whether it be, that Rains 
wafli down matter equivalent to manure from the adjacent 
Hills (which yet cannot be difcerned, though looked afier ;) 
or whether its fertility proceeds from prolifick exhalations 
from a fubterraneous caufe, I. will not determine. 
There are alfo feme Fields, that appear to be nothing elfe 
but a gathering of fmall Pebbles, infomuch that Earth cannot 
.be well difcerned amoogft them ; yet do they yield abundance 
of good Corn, efpeciallyof Barley; and more than contigu- 
ous Lands that are not ftony. Whether this be from acciden- 
tal Heat conh^aded by thepreniire of thofe Stones or from 
fulphtireous Salin emanations from them ( which yet I could 
never force out of them ; J or vvhether it be from the reper- 
cufllon of the fermenting exhalations that afcend, which they 
force into the portion of Mould that ismixt with them ; I leava 
to the Judicious to confider. 
As fot om Heds, I have nothing extraordinary. All I find 
here, are in Hiftory , excepting one , which grows on Stony- 
flioars I but becaufe 'tis not by me, I will not venture to give 
you its dcfcriptionnow, leaft it fhould be tooimperfe6* One 
particular 1 cook notice of, which perhaps is no novelty to 
you, as it is none to our Highlanders ; But fince it is to me, I 
flball relate it. When they want Ink, they take the Roor of the 
Iris palujlris lufea (j/ellotv PVater Fiower-de-luc^) andinfufeic 
twenty four hours in clear Fountain- water 5 others boyl it a 
little : The water will not be tinged ro any height. Then they 
take a rough white Pebble, and rub ic continually in the water 
on a knife or any piece of clean Steel 5 and in lefsthanan hours 
time the water will become very black, and tolerable good Ink ^ 
This I oft-prafticed. 
Our Forreftersalledge, that when Deer are wounded, they 
lie on a certain Herb > which grows plentifully in our Forrefts, 
and 
