Vegetable Staiicks. j I 
pounds 4 ounces -j- A cubick foot of 
water weighs nearly 6 2 pounds, which is 
little more than half the fpecifick gravity 
of earth. This was a. dry feafon, with a 
mixture of feme few fhowers, fo that the 
grafs-plat adjoining was not burnt up. 
At the fame time I dug up another cubicle 
foot of earth, from the bottom of the for- 
mer, it weighed 10 6 pound 6 ounces -J~t- 
I dug up alfo a third cubicle foot of earth, 
at the bottom of the two former, it weighed 
in pounds -j- i. 
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 fprings did then run. 
When the firft cubick foot of earth was 
fo dry and dully, as to be unfit for vegeta- 
tion I weighed it, and found it had loft 
6 pound ~j~ 11 ounces, or 194 cubick in- 
ches of water, near 4 part of its bulk. 
Some days after, the fecond cubick foot 
being dryer than either the firft or third, 
was decreafed in weight 10 pounds. 
The third cubick foot, being very dry 
and dully, had loft 8 pounds 8 ounces, or 
247 cubick inches, viz. 4 part of its 
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