SOILS, MANURES,. &c. 265 
The properties and qualities of differ¬ 
ent fubftances are apparently fo extreme¬ 
ly diffimilar to each other, that it feems 
almoft natural to conclude they are ori¬ 
ginally compofed of different kinds of 
matter; but upon a juft and mature 
refle&ion on the infinite power and 
wifdom of the Creator, the idea vanifhes, 
and it muft be acknowledged, that one, 
pure, uncompounded element, or mate¬ 
rial, may have been abundantly fufficient 
in his hand, to produce under different 
modifications, all the various phenomena 
of nature. 
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