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INTIMATE CONNECTION

THAT SUBSISTS BETWEEN

AGRICULTURE AND CHEMISTRY.

Title

EARTH.

BY the word earth, in its common acceptation, is either to be understood the habitable globe—the solid or dry part of it, in opposition to the aqueous, or the surface stratum, soil, or mould, in opposition to the more solid under strata; whilst the word earth, taken chemically, signifies a dry, uncom younded, simple sub- stance, incapable of being yolatilized, or aéted upon by

fire,; “here