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ufed, the feed is much and the ftraw little, (/ have feen^ faies he 
in fuch a Place, good Barljy where the ear has been equal in length 
with theftalk.it grew on^ and after the Corn is off, that the grafs . 
in fuch places turns to C lover ^ Some of the beft: of this fand, he 
faies, lies under Ouje or Mud about a foot deep ; and who knows 
but there may be fuch a Sand under the briny Bog near Church- 
/'/■//-mill, or at Chadlingtm ? I am fure the fait fpring at Clifton 
comes from a fand ; if fo, aud the Farmers thereabout get fuch 
Corn and Clover-grafi^ 1 hope I (liall not want the thanks of the 
Country. 
46. However, I do not doubt but the water will be ferviceable, 
either to caft on their Land, as at Nantmch^ or to fteep their 
Corn in before they fow it, to prefcrve it from all the inconve- 
nicncies formerly prevented by brining and liming it, and to 
ftrengthen it in its growth. 
47. Sir Hugh Plat ^ tcWsus^ of a poor Country-man who pa f- 
fmg over an arm of the fea with his Seed-corn ina fack, by mif- 
chance at his landing fell into the water, and fo his Corn being 
left there till the next Ebb, became fomwhat brackidi ; yet fuch 
was the neceffity of the Man, that (nocwithftanding he was out 
of all hope of any good fuccefs, yet not being able to buy any 
other) he fowed the fame upon his plowed grounds ; and in fine, 
w^hen the Harveft time came about, he reaped a crop of goodly 
Wheat, fuch as in that year not any of his Neighbors had the 
like. 
48. Now^ let the Owners or Farmers of thefe ^rings fit down 
and confider of what has been faid, and if they fliall think fit, 
make tryal of them, wherein, if they meet with fuccefs, I only 
beg of them (which I fliall gladly accept as the guerdon of my 
labors) that they would be as free of it to their poor Neighbors 
that have lean grounds and ill penny-worths, as God has been to 
them by me his weak infi:rument in the difcovery. 
49. Having fpokeof fuch waters cure faulty grounds, and 
cuticular diftempcrs by external application, it folio weth, that we 
treat of fuch as are, or may be taken inwardly, and deferve the 
repute of Medicinal waters. The firft, and perchance the befl: of 
thefe, 1 found at Veddington^ a fmall Mercat Town, within the 
Clofeof one Mr. Lane^ where not long fmce digging a Well, 
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