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T i9,Whethcr Rain-water,that falls with Thunder and Lightning, 
.4o more fertilize the ground,tban other Rain-water ? 
20. Whether the alhes of Soap-boy lers^carried on meddows,and 
they dunged therewith, eac away all moflincfs, and make grow fine 
young grafsi? 
21. Whether the Corn- womis(of which Virgil ^d\t\\,fopulat((\ in- 
gentem /irm 4^^ri/»«i«GlIRGlIL10,) will be efFeflually driven a- 
way by a ffrong decoftion of Worm woodland by boyling the fame 
Wormwood in Herring-pickie, and thenfprinkling with this water 
the floor where the Corn lyes, and with a little of it the Corn it 
felfjftirring it well afterwards ? 
2 2. Whether hands rubbed with Rue, will thereby be fecured 
from the biting of Vipers,Scorpions,c^^. f 
23» Whether putting a little Worm wood- water into your Ink, 
will preferve the paper, you write on, from the gnawing of Moths 
and Mice ^ 
24. Whether hanging up the skin of a Paradife-bird in a fhop,or 
putting it among cloath,will fecure them from Moths ? 
25. Whether Rue hung round about the place, where Poultry 
roofts,will keep Weafels and Cats from hurting them ? 
26. Whether Ants or Pifmires will be driven a way by fcattcring 
the powder of Brimflonc and Origanum or wild Marjoram f And 
whether the fame efFedi: will follow upon the fmoaking of y?*r4X or 
4lfafdtida;ot upon the fmoak of fome of thofe creatures themfclves 
.burnt 
27. Whether Locufts,Flyes and Gnats will be driven away from 
Plants by fmoaking of Wormwood, or by fpr inkling plants with a 
deeoflion of that herb f 
28. Whether Experienced© verific what Confiantin^iht Georgi- 
cal Writer/aith of a way of freeing the ground from Moles, viz.by 
digging adeep hole^and putting into it a pretty deep glazed earth- 
en pot,broad below and narrow a top,throwing a deadCrabfilh in- 
to ic 5 whereupon the Mole, upon the fmell of the (linking fifh,will 
creep unto ir,and falling into the por,cannot get our again ? 
Thefe,and the like Qiieries,(which hereafter may follow,)are rai- 
fcd from the Communications of feveral of ourCorrefpondcnts; 
which we are unwilling to deliver pofirively, till we hear them af- 
ferted and confirmed by obferving perfons upon tlieir own pra- 
fliceand experience. 
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