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holds, which being diflblved by the weather^ is imbibe d by the 
Earthy as hinted before in Chap. 4. of this Effay. 
7 r . The 2^ fort I firil obferved about Watlington^ and the two 
Britmls^ where they ftrew them on their Land with good fuccefs ; 
6c 1 have heard fince of feveral other places where they do the fame. 
To this purpofe they purchafe Taykrs{\\\:tds^ which yet retain- 
ing fomwhat of the falto^ the Eulling- earth with which they were 
dreft, do well enough ; but I judge them not fo good as other 
old rags firft worn by men and women^ which muft needs befide be 
very well fated with urinom falts^ contrafted from the fvceat a nd 
continual perff iration attending their Bodies, And in this Opini- 
on I am confirmed by SanEi, San^oriu^., who is pofitive, that our 
infenfibk evacuations^ tranfcendallourfenftble onesput together to 
that excefs, that of eight pounds weight of meat and drink, be taken 
by a man in one day^ hk infenfible transpirations ufe to amount to five ^ 
Now if fo, our deaths muft needs be fo filled with a well rectified 
falt^ left behind in the percolation of the fleams of our bodies^ that 
there can be nothing more rational, if well confidered, then that 
they (liould be a very fit manure for Land, when unfit for other 
ufes. 
72. As to the quantities of Corn fown on the ftatute Acre., they 
differ much in proportion to the richnefsor meannefs of the land ; 
about two bufiels of wheat 'dnd vetches^ two bufhels and [of bariy^ 
oats^ and peas^ and a quarter of beans [u'^cing the poorer ; where- 
as the richer Land will take up three bupels or more of wheat or 
vetches, thxee bufiels 2.nd \ or upwards of barly ^ oats., peas ^ and 
fomtimes fix bufiels of beans : Yet I have known fome able Huf- 
bandmen ?i^otd more Seed to their poor than rich Land, giving 
this reafon, That the Seed in the rich does tillar^ i. e. fprout into 
feveral blades and fpread on the ground, whereas on the poor 
Land its fprouts come all fingle, which therefore, fay they, re- 
quires the more feed. 
73. In the choice of their feed they have a double refpedl, 
firft to the grain it felf, and fecondly to the land it grew on. As 
to thefirfi^ they take care that it be clear of all manner of feeds ; 
that it be handfom round Corn^ of an equal cize, which fome of 
them cdll Even //jooting Corn ^ or well brefited 'j fuch Corn hemg for 
the moft part full of krnel^ and the likelieft to give ftrongroo/5, 
S. SaniioriiMcdicince Static^e^ JJb. l.fed.i. Aphorifm. i^. ' Uid Apborifm C 
And 
