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drink ale to excefs, acquire the gravel; thofe, who drink wine to

excefs, acquire the gout; and the drinkers of fpirits die of the drop- {y!—but it is the cuftom of moft of the inebriates of this country to

begin their unfortunate career with the firft, and terminate it with the laft.;

12. To be inferted at the end of Seët: X. 6. 8.

An important paper concerning lime is this year publifhed in the Philofophical Tranfa@ions by Mr.Tennant, who having been inform- ed, that two kinds of lime were ufed in agriculture, which differed greatly in their effeéts, one of which it was neceffary to ufe fparing- ly, and to fpread very evenly over the land; for it was faid, that a large proportion of it diminifhed the fertility of the foil; and that wherever a heap of it had been left on one fpot, all vegetation was prevented for many years. And that of this kind of lime fifty or fixty bufhels on an acre were as much as could be ufed with advantage; while of the other fort of lime a large quantity was never found to be injurious; and that the fpots, which were entirely covered with it, became remarkably fertile, inftead of being rendered barren.

Mr. T'ennant having analyfed thofe two kinds of lime found, that the latter conffted folely of calcareous earth; but that the former contained two parts of magnefa with three parts of calcareous earth. He afterwards obferved, that though vegetable feeds would grow equally well in both thefe kinds of limeftone, when fimply reduced to powder; yet that, when they were calcined fo as to become lime, and both of them ftrewed about the tenth of an inch thick on gar- den mould, that the magnefan lime prevented nearly all the feeds, which had been fowed, from coming up; while no injury was occa- fioned by the calcareous lime ufed in the fame manner.

This important difcovery feems to explain the caufe of fuch variety ofopinion about the ufe of lime, which fome have believed to be of

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