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to the South A circumftance of the greateft importance re- 
fpeding the plantation of Vineyards. 
Secondly. As I have, in the former part of this w'ork, taken 
notice of the foil proper for Vines, it may feem unneceffary 
here to enlarge upon that head. I (hall, however, juft obferve, 
that the Vine delights in fuch gravelly and rocky foils as we 
frequently find on the fides of fteep hills and rocks ; and that 
it has fometimes been known to flourifii among mere ftones 
and gravel.^ 
Hence 
^ It is a general and received opinion, that this ifiand was originally united 
with, and formed a part of, the continent. 
The fimilarity of the different ftrata, which, it Is faid, form the land on both 
Ades of the Britifh channel, ferves to confirm us in this belief. 
Moreover, on the South coaft of England the rocks have a Southern afpeft; 
but, on the oppofite coaft of France, I am told they incline to the North. From 
thence it is reafonable to conclude, that at the deluge the horizontal ftratum (or 
Ifthmus) was broken between thefe countries, and the bed or middle of the chan- 
nel falling loweft, the fea naturally flowed into it, and formed what is now called 
the Br'itijh Channel. 
K “ Concerning the foil proper for Vines, I (hall give the firft hint from that 
“ ingenious and candid piece of Air. Lawrence’s, where, with fo much 
“ good reafon, he tells us, that he cannot eafily be brought to think that 
“ any foil or fituation can be too dry for the roots of the Vine, after having 
“ feen at Barnwall, near Oundle, in Northamptonfmre, a flourifhing Vine 
“ grow from between the joints of an old caftle wall, near twenty feet high 
“ from 
