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ine behind, gradually mouldered down to the ftate in which we now find them.

§ 39. APHORIS M IE

The fame quantity of calcareous matter, will, in all cafes, operate equally powerful on foils of a fimilar quality, when in afimilar fate. But thefe effects may be acces lerated or retarded,—be more uniform or unequal, accord- ing as the calcareous matter is more or lefs perfectly di- vided when it is fir applied to the foil.

If the calcareous matter be divided into very{mall particles, fo as to admit of be-, ing equally fpread over a very large fur- face, a fmail dheweey of it will: produce a much more fenfible effect, than if the fame quantity of calcareous matter had been ap- plied in large lumps, which could, in that cafe, have operated only upon a very few

particles of the foil:—Therefore, lime, fine

quia ntities than any other clafs o eee Hows,, that if equal quantities of calcareous matter are. em- wile as a manure, that kind which admits £ being moft minutely divided, will pro-

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