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 ¬tures, and in the universal prosperity of the country ? ¬" Lime, which has caused to start into life the most inert and sterile parts of Great Britain, is just nothing as a manure when compared with salt, which differs from it, besides, in two remark- able qualities, decisive of its superior value. — Lime, and I believe all other known composts, are powerful only according to the quantities in which they are used, whereas salt, to be use- ful, must be sparingly employed ; it corrupts vegetable substances when mixed with them in small quantities, but preserves them when it predominates in the mass. — It is needless there- fore to add, that independently of its compara- tive lightness, the expense both of the article and its carriage must be very greatly diminished. Yet you rob the mother of your people of this food which indulgent nature has cast into her lap, sufficient, as you will see hereafter, to feed all her children, even if their numbers were doubled. ¬" Nothing ¬