which occasions those, fine pale and amber Malts made at _Dunstable_,
_Tring_ and _Dagnal_ from the Barley that comes off the white and gravelly
Grounds about those Places; for it is certain there is as much difference
in Barley as in Wheat or other Grain, from the sort it comes off, as
appears by the excellent Wheats that grow in the marly vale Earths, Peas
in Sands, and Barley in Gravels and Chalks, &c. For our Mother Earth, as
it is destinated to the service of Man in the production of Vegetables, is
composed of various sorts of Soils for different Seeds to grow therein.
And since Providence has been pleased to allow Man this great privilege
for the imployment of his skill and labour to improve the same to his
advantage; it certainly behoves us to acquaint ourselves with its several
natures, and how to adapt an agreeable Grain and Manure to their natural
Soil, as being the very foundation of enjoying good and bad Malts. This is
obvious by parallel Deductions from Turneps sown on rank clayey loamy
Grounds, dressed with noxious Dungs that render them bitter, tuff, and
nauseous, while those that grow on Gravels, Sands and Chalky Loams under
the assistance of the Fold, or Soot, Lime, Ashes, Hornshavings, &c. are
sweet (unreadable) and pleasant. 'Tis the same also with salads,
Asparagus, Cabbages, Garden-beans and all other culinary Ware, that come
off those rich Grounds glutted with the great quantities of _London_ and
other rank Dungs which are not near so pure, sweet and wholsome, as those
produced from Virgin mould and other healthy Earths and Manures.

There is likewise another reason that has brought a disreputation on some
of the Chiltern-barley, and that is, the too often sowing of one and the
same piece of Ground, whereby its spirituous, nitrous and sulphureous
qualities are exhausted and worn out, by the constant attraction of its
best juices for the nutriment of the Grain: To supply which, great
quantities of Dungs are often incorporated with such Earths, whereby they
become impregnated with four, adulterated, unwholsome qualities, that so