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# Title: Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences (shelfmarks Leibn. Marg. 71; ZEN Leibn. Marg. 71)
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Rain has poured donn a Fre SEocKnpon ir. OF] and nOt Water, is the Matrer that constitres Ve.
by che Fillers Care, in Manurins oF ic. And FOK
Furcher eridence chat chis supply is in realies ol
likce Port, ve necd onty reffect a rhile upon chose
Manures chac are Found by constane Experience
bestto promore Vegeration, and he Fruitsulness ot
the Farth. Thele are chieAy cicher Parts of VegC
cables, Or oE Animals, Wtrich indeed cicher derive
cheir omn Nourictimene immediacels trom Veseta
ble Bodies, or trom orher Animals chac do(0.. In
SetablCS.
The PlanE in F. drew up into it 250r Grains OF
the Fluid Mass, and ver had receired buc 3= GF.
OE Encrease trom all chat.
ThC Mint in L, tho ic had ae Arst che disad-
vantage ro be much lels chan chac in L, Vet beins
sec in Water, Wherewich Parch vas plencitulle
mixed, and chac in Lonly in Water, Without any
Cuch addirionas Farth, ic had rastir ourgrovon che
parricular, ahie Blood, Vrine, and Exorements of orher, Weighns ar la 145 Cir. more chan chac did
Animals; Shavings of Ftorns, and oF IToofs: TTair,
IVool, Feathers, calcined Shells, Lees of Wine, and
Ot Beer, Astes OF all Porrs oE Veset able Bodies, Leaves,
Stram, Ro0tS, and Stubble curned into Carrh, b)
Plowine, or ocherwile, t0 rot and dissolve chere.
These, L Pay, are oux best Manures; and bcinz
Vecetable Substances when retunded back again
into ihe Farrh, Cerre For che Formarion ot Ortrer
attC Bodics.
NVor nutiolly co consine our Thourhrs tothe
Fielas, det us look a erhile into our Cardens, wrhere
ve Mall aeer wirt sill furcher Contirmarions ot
the Came chins. The Prees, Shrubs, and Fterbs,
Culrirared in these, atter cher have concinued in
one sration, rill cher have derired thence the grea-
Dex PAIE OF EhC MIALTCF AE FOF ceir Auement, will
decaz and decenerate, unless cicher trect Farch, or
Pome sic Manure, be applied untothem. Tistrue,
cher may maincain themselres chere foi lome rime,
by sendins Forrh ROOrS furthex and Furrher, t0 a
oreat Fxtene al round, to Ferch in more remore
Provision; buc at las, all will Fail; and cher muct
cirher have a Fremh Supply broughe cochem, Or
and (o havins sain d abore rvice a5 much 25 chc
Ocher had.
In litce manner, that in IE, tho tvas a great deab
less wohen pur in,, chan thac in P, and also vas im
Paird and oftended by Insects, vec beins plancea
in Wacer wherein Farch was dissolved, Wvhereas
the Water in Whrich (.L) Aood, had none, ic nO
onlr overrook, bur considerably Curpassed che otter
ther chemsetres be remored and transplanted 10
veiehins ac lac 29 Gr. more chan chat in L, anc
vet had noc expanded (o much Warer a5 chac by
abore 2400 Gr.
The Plant in DI, tho aE Srs a Breat deal lelS
chan chac in NI, ver beins sec in che foul crass WNa-
ter thac as lesr in che Scill, atter chac in wvtich MI
Was sec, was dravn oft, in conclusion, had sain d
in Weishe abore double irhac chac in che finer and
thinner Wacer had.
The Proporrion oF the Augmene ol chac Plant
chac chrore most, as ro che Fluid Mals spent ux-
On ic, bur 25 L +O 46; in OTheES, LW2S 25 Y 1060
100 10200; naY, in che Cataputia, cwas buc 25
+ 10 714
The Mint in B, t0OK ux 39 Gr. OF Nater a day
one day wich anocher; Which ras much morc
Tome Place becter Curnistred avich Macrer For rheir (chan che whole Weistie oF che Plane originallr
Subsistence. And accordinslr, Cardiners obserre, and vet with all chis, ic sained nor = OF a Grali
Thac Planes that hare Aood a great while in a Place,
hare lonser RoOrS chan utual: Part of Which chez
cur of wrhen cher Transplane ro a Frem Soil, 25
now rocoF ans Turther use tO them
2 dar, in WVeight.
NaY, Thac in FP, 100K uP 253 OF. a day oF che
Fluid, Wvhich as near mice a5 much 25 irs orisi-
nal WVeisht, ic eighing, when Ar sec in the WV a
AI chese Instances, 10 pals ovet a oreat many cer, buc 127 Gr. And atter all, che dails Encreale
others ch F mishe be alledsed, poinc Forth a parti- OE che Planc ras no more than 236 GI.
culer Terrestriat Matter, 2nd nOE WVaEEE, FOE the
Subject, to wohich Plancs ove cheir Increase:
NVere it WVater onIY, there rould be no necd ot
Manures, Ox oF Transplamins ehem trom place te
place. The Rain Falls in aIl places alite, in chis
Fiela and in char indifferener, in onc side ol an
Orchalt et Catu do Well as anocher. Nor couta
chereDe dus sealon, wls a Tract ot Land Mould
vield Trheat one ZCar, and nOr the neXI, Since the
Rain Morers donn alike in each. Bur Lam sensible
Thave Caseu o s Atticle totOO Breat 2 lengt h.
etrich rec on (0 ample and excensire a Subicet
Evas not calie eo aroid.
3. Descnonsate rsormed of Walet, dut of a cer
cain peculiar Terrestrial Malter.
Ie hath been Mevn, Thar there is a considerable
Ouaricier oF ehiis HLatrer contain d Borh in Rain
Spring, dlla Lder Water; thac the much GreaTeM
ParE Ot  Llu Ma al alcellus up into PlanES
ades hor leccle or ablue cntete, Ou pasles throusli
idle Pores of them, and Lilases up Into the ArmO
sPHere: IHaE a OrCaL parE OL IIIC CCCeaLMaETCI
mixed wirh the Wacer, passes up io cne Plane
alonu vich ic, and chac the Plane is more ol les.
auomented in proporrion, 25 the W alet COHLAIMS S
Sca s sinaller Diancie) Ol ac Marrer. From 21
ahich ve mas very realonabis inter, That L.artI
6. Sprins and Rain-vater contain pretty near an
equal charse of Vesetable Matter; River-water
more thaneither of them.
The Planes in the Glasses A, B, and C, vere at
tirst ot much che Came Sisc and Weighc. AC the
end ot che Fixperimene, the Minc in A had saina
15 OF. OuT OF 2558 Cr. OF Spring- vater: Thac in
B, 17 = OF. OuT OF 3004 Gr. OF Rain- mater 5 bu
thar in C had 8or 26 Cr. our oF only 2493 Or. Ob
River-mater.
donoc Tound chis Proposition Colely uxon chese
Frials, havins made some more, Wtich L do nor
relare here, char agree eil enough wich chese
SoThat, the Proportions here delivered, will hola
For the main; buc a Ariet and just Comparison i
hardly eo be expected; (ofar trom ic, chat Imake
no doubr, buc che Wacer char Falls in Rain ar lome
times, contains a preater Mare oE Terrestial Matier
than chac whrici Fall ac OTHCES. A MOXC POrVerFuI
and incense IPear must necds hurry up a larget
Onantiey oF chac Macter alone wich elie humic
Vapours, thac Form Rain, than one more fecble and
remiss ever possibls can. The Wacer ot orie Sprins
may Aor Forrh wich an higher Charse oF this MaF
ter, than chac of anocher; chis dependins parely
upon che quiclnels oF che Libullirion oFche WVater.
and parelr, upon the quanties oE chat Matrer la
rene in che scraca chroues wotrich ch. Fiuid pastes