Vegetable Statich, y i 
fture nature had provided in the earth \ ( a- 
gainft the dry fummer feafon,) that might 
anfwer this great expence of it, which is fo 
neceflary for the produdtion and fupport of 
vegetables. 
July 31. 1724. I dug up a cubickfootof 
earth in an alley, which was very little tram- 
pled on 5 it weighed ( after deducting the 
weight of the containing veffel ) 1 04 pounds 
-j- 4 ounces + t- A cubick foot of water 
weighs 5 9 + J j which is little more than half 
the fpecifick gravity of earth. This was a 
dry feafon, with a mixture of fome few fhow-^ 
ers , fo that the grafs-plat adjoyning was not 
burnt up. 
At the fame time I dug up another cu- 
bick foot of earth, from the bottom of the 
former, it weighed 106 pound 6 ounces^ 
+ 3. 
I dug up alfo a third cubick foot of earth,' 
at the bottom of the two former, it weighed 
III pounds 4“ 3 • 
Thefe three feet depth were a good brick 
earth, next to which was gravel, in which 
at 2 feet depth, viz. 5 feet below the fur« 
face of the earth, the fpringsdid then run. 
When the firft cubick foot of earth was 
E 2 fo 
