( 55 ' ) 
great a Plenty of the Male Plants as there is of the 
Female. I follow your Commands, rather than my 
own Inclinations, in giving you this I rouble, and 
am, with the greateft Refpeft, 
SIR , 
Tour mojt obliged , and 
Sutton , near Dartford, 
Au^uji zo, 172S. ofodient humble Servant , 
Edmund Barrell. 
III. An uncommon Sinking of the Ground in Kent. 
Communicated m a 'Letter to Mr. Peter Col- 
lin fon. 
SIX, 
I T is within this three or four Days, that I have fir ft 
been able to get a more particular Account of the 
linking of the Lands at Lymne in Kent, and even now, 
perhaps, it will be but an imperfect one. 
It is now about two Years lince it happened, and 
was the Confequence of a very .wet Seafon, when the 
Waters, that had fallen on the Up-lands, and were not 
carried off by Drains, foaked into the Ground in fuch 
Quantities as to form a quick Sand at fome conliderable 
Depth in the Earth (at leal! this is what we look on to 
have caufed the Phenomenon) which not being able to 
bear the Weight upon it, broke out at the Side of the 
