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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. -

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  1. Rain has poured donn a Fre SEocKnpon ir. OF] and nOt Water, is the Matrer that constitres Ve.
  2. by che Fillers Care, in Manurins oF ic. And FOK
  3. Furcher eridence chat chis supply is in realies ol
  4. likce Port, ve necd onty reffect a rhile upon chose
  5. Manures chac are Found by constane Experience
  6. bestto promore Vegeration, and he Fruitsulness ot
  7. the Farth. Thele are chieAy cicher Parts of VegC
  8. cables, Or oE Animals, Wtrich indeed cicher derive
  9. cheir omn Nourictimene immediacels trom Veseta
  10. ble Bodies, or trom orher Animals chac do(0.. In
  11. SetablCS.
  12. The PlanE in F. drew up into it 250r Grains OF
  13. the Fluid Mass, and ver had receired buc 3= GF.
  14. OE Encrease trom all chat.
  15. ThC Mint in L, tho ic had ae Arst che disad-
  16. vantage ro be much lels chan chac in L, Vet beins
  17. sec in Water, Wherewich Parch vas plencitulle
  18. mixed, and chac in Lonly in Water, Without any
  19. Cuch addirionas Farth, ic had rastir ourgrovon che
  20. parricular, ahie Blood, Vrine, and Exorements of orher, Weighns ar la 145 Cir. more chan chac did
  21. Animals; Shavings of Ftorns, and oF IToofs: TTair,
  22. IVool, Feathers, calcined Shells, Lees of Wine, and
  23. Ot Beer, Astes OF all Porrs oE Veset able Bodies, Leaves,
  24. Stram, Ro0tS, and Stubble curned into Carrh, b)
  25. Plowine, or ocherwile, t0 rot and dissolve chere.
  26. These, L Pay, are oux best Manures; and bcinz
  27. Vecetable Substances when retunded back again
  28. into ihe Farrh, Cerre For che Formarion ot Ortrer
  29. attC Bodics.
  30. NVor nutiolly co consine our Thourhrs tothe
  31. Fielas, det us look a erhile into our Cardens, wrhere
  32. ve Mall aeer wirt sill furcher Contirmarions ot
  33. the Came chins. The Prees, Shrubs, and Fterbs,
  34. Culrirared in these, atter cher have concinued in
  35. one sration, rill cher have derired thence the grea-
  36. Dex PAIE OF EhC MIALTCF AE FOF ceir Auement, will
  37. decaz and decenerate, unless cicher trect Farch, or
  38. Pome sic Manure, be applied untothem. Tistrue,
  39. cher may maincain themselres chere foi lome rime,
  40. by sendins Forrh ROOrS furthex and Furrher, t0 a
  41. oreat Fxtene al round, to Ferch in more remore
  42. Provision; buc at las, all will Fail; and cher muct
  43. cirher have a Fremh Supply broughe cochem, Or
  44. and (o havins sain d abore rvice a5 much 25 chc
  45. Ocher had.
  46. In litce manner, that in IE, tho tvas a great deab
  47. less wohen pur in,, chan thac in P, and also vas im
  48. Paird and oftended by Insects, vec beins plancea
  49. in Wacer wherein Farch was dissolved, Wvhereas
  50. the Water in Whrich (.L) Aood, had none, ic nO
  51. onlr overrook, bur considerably Curpassed che otter
  52. ther chemsetres be remored and transplanted 10
  53. veiehins ac lac 29 Gr. more chan chat in L, anc
  54. vet had noc expanded (o much Warer a5 chac by
  55. abore 2400 Gr.
  56. The Plant in DI, tho aE Srs a Breat deal lelS
  57. chan chac in NI, ver beins sec in che foul crass WNa-
  58. ter thac as lesr in che Scill, atter chac in wvtich MI
  59. Was sec, was dravn oft, in conclusion, had sain d
  60. in Weishe abore double irhac chac in che finer and
  61. thinner Wacer had.
  62. The Proporrion oF the Augmene ol chac Plant
  63. chac chrore most, as ro che Fluid Mals spent ux-
  64. On ic, bur 25 L +O 46; in OTheES, LW2S 25 Y 1060
  65. 100 10200; naY, in che Cataputia, cwas buc 25
  66. + 10 714
  67. The Mint in B, t0OK ux 39 Gr. OF Nater a day
  68. one day wich anocher; Which ras much morc
  69. Tome Place becter Curnistred avich Macrer For rheir (chan che whole Weistie oF che Plane originallr
  70. Subsistence. And accordinslr, Cardiners obserre, and vet with all chis, ic sained nor = OF a Grali
  71. Thac Planes that hare Aood a great while in a Place,
  72. hare lonser RoOrS chan utual: Part of Which chez
  73. cur of wrhen cher Transplane ro a Frem Soil, 25
  74. now rocoF ans Turther use tO them
  75. 2 dar, in WVeight.
  76. NaY, Thac in FP, 100K uP 253 OF. a day oF che
  77. Fluid, Wvhich as near mice a5 much 25 irs orisi-
  78. nal WVeisht, ic eighing, when Ar sec in the WV a
  79. AI chese Instances, 10 pals ovet a oreat many cer, buc 127 Gr. And atter all, che dails Encreale
  80. others ch F mishe be alledsed, poinc Forth a parti- OE che Planc ras no more than 236 GI.
  81. culer Terrestriat Matter, 2nd nOE WVaEEE, FOE the
  82. Subject, to wohich Plancs ove cheir Increase:
  83. NVere it WVater onIY, there rould be no necd ot
  84. Manures, Ox oF Transplamins ehem trom place te
  85. place. The Rain Falls in aIl places alite, in chis
  86. Fiela and in char indifferener, in onc side ol an
  87. Orchalt et Catu do Well as anocher. Nor couta
  88. chereDe dus sealon, wls a Tract ot Land Mould
  89. vield Trheat one ZCar, and nOr the neXI, Since the
  90. Rain Morers donn alike in each. Bur Lam sensible
  91. Thave Caseu o s Atticle totOO Breat 2 lengt h.
  92. etrich rec on (0 ample and excensire a Subicet
  93. Evas not calie eo aroid.
  94. 3. Descnonsate rsormed of Walet, dut of a cer
  95. cain peculiar Terrestrial Malter.
  96. Ie hath been Mevn, Thar there is a considerable
  97. Ouaricier oF ehiis HLatrer contain d Borh in Rain
  98. Spring, dlla Lder Water; thac the much GreaTeM
  99. ParE Ot Llu Ma al alcellus up into PlanES
  100. ades hor leccle or ablue cntete, Ou pasles throusli
  101. idle Pores of them, and Lilases up Into the ArmO
  102. sPHere: IHaE a OrCaL parE OL IIIC CCCeaLMaETCI
  103. mixed wirh the Wacer, passes up io cne Plane
  104. alonu vich ic, and chac the Plane is more ol les.
  105. auomented in proporrion, 25 the W alet COHLAIMS S
  106. Sca s sinaller Diancie) Ol ac Marrer. From 21
  107. ahich ve mas very realonabis inter, That L.artI
  108. 6. Sprins and Rain-vater contain pretty near an
  109. equal charse of Vesetable Matter; River-water
  110. more thaneither of them.
  111. The Planes in the Glasses A, B, and C, vere at
  112. tirst ot much che Came Sisc and Weighc. AC the
  113. end ot che Fixperimene, the Minc in A had saina
  114. 15 OF. OuT OF 2558 Cr. OF Spring- vater: Thac in
  115. B, 17 = OF. OuT OF 3004 Gr. OF Rain- mater 5 bu
  116. thar in C had 8or 26 Cr. our oF only 2493 Or. Ob
  117. River-mater.
  118. donoc Tound chis Proposition Colely uxon chese
  119. Frials, havins made some more, Wtich L do nor
  120. relare here, char agree eil enough wich chese
  121. SoThat, the Proportions here delivered, will hola
  122. For the main; buc a Ariet and just Comparison i
  123. hardly eo be expected; (ofar trom ic, chat Imake
  124. no doubr, buc che Wacer char Falls in Rain ar lome
  125. times, contains a preater Mare oE Terrestial Matier
  126. than chac whrici Fall ac OTHCES. A MOXC POrVerFuI
  127. and incense IPear must necds hurry up a larget
  128. Onantiey oF chac Macter alone wich elie humic
  129. Vapours, thac Form Rain, than one more fecble and
  130. remiss ever possibls can. The Wacer ot orie Sprins
  131. may Aor Forrh wich an higher Charse oF this MaF
  132. ter, than chac of anocher; chis dependins parely
  133. upon che quiclnels oF che Libullirion oFche WVater.
  134. and parelr, upon the quanties oE chat Matrer la
  135. rene in che scraca chroues wotrich ch. Fiuid pastes

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Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary Of Arts And Sciences, fol. - . Machine transcription, not an edition: Leibniz Legible (model FoNDUE-GD_v2_ft_Leibniz, run 74). https://leibnizlegible.com/page/806933011:0887?run=74