pared to paß into the ftill more curious and highly organized parts
o f animals. It is eafy to lee that this is rather a detail of the lèverai
materials and Well-known inftruments conducing to fertility-,*
than the caufe ; fertility is owing to the concert}, fitneß,andagree-
ment o f all thefe ( with perhaps lome volatile} a&ive principle, of
which we know nothing at all) ; ' but whence that agreement does
reliait, how the materials ferment, replace* connect, and invigorate
one another, how the veflels chufe and refufe (if I may fey fo)s in
coder to produce the fertility defired, • is known only to the infinitely
wife Difpofer of all things, ever attentive to the nurture and fiip-
port of what he has created.
But to whatever caufe the fertility of Earth is to be affigned,
Earth, it mult be owned, is a moft fruitful, univerfal element;
animals, plants, metals, and. ftoneé, arife; èut of it, andreturn t#.
it again ; there, as it were, to receive a new exiftenee, and form
new combinations ; the ruins and diflohition of one fort, affording1^
ftill more and more apt materials for the,mofe.plentiful production-
o f others : in ftones and metals, we admire the cöhtihuityf Hardnefs-,
and luftre of Earth; in plants, the loftneis, variety, colours, and?
odour; in animals, the flelh, the bone, and yet an infinite number of
different fluids, in which this lupple element çan Take place ; but
riie greateft wonder is, that Earth is capablefof being fiibtilized to,
fiich an exquifite degree, as by uniting and communicating- with
fpirit to perform all animal functions given in charge to it by the
foul. This is the higheft and utmoft refinement which, in this
ftate o f being, Earth is capable of ; but that it -may be ftill farther
refinèd, in order to be qualified for a future, incorruptible, and- mort'
glorious ftate, is one o f the great truths which we owe to Révélation.
sect. vii. In our mines, we often find the Ochrous Earths of metals, the
H nifty Ochre of iron, which we, in Cornwall, call Gdjfcm, the green
brown and blue Ochres o f copper, the pale yellow Ochre of lead k, the
Earth‘ brown yellow of tin, and the red Ochre of Bifmuth; thefe Earths we
call the feeders of the metals they belong to, and where they are
found, the metals are generally, and very juftly reckoned not to be far
off. Chalk is fcarcely yet difeovered any where in Cornwall, but I
have fiich a fample by me (though of a coarfe gritt); brought from
the parifti o f St. Clare, as may convince us that more may be found
than is imagined upon a diligent fearch; a lump of fmooth Earth,
brought me from the parifh of Illogan, of a chocolate colour, was
k I have fome lumps of this from Gwynier
downs, which, in its natural ftate, mixes well
with oil, and makes a {hade betwixt the common
light and brown Ochre; neither fo bright as
the former, nor fo ruddy and warm as the latter;
but more upon the pink. This therefore might
probably be introduced into painting with advantage,
as it is folid, and will not fly off (as the
painters fay) as the biown pink, being a tranfpa-
rent colour, will; -
fpcckled
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fpeclded » and throughout with a bright yellow Ochre, ■ e-enoom Ctat,: » watt,- a would not W e , nor remrin fuf
P“ ded, b u t f fcw « » « « I when wetted, ■ * to
I l l “ d “J p | M ™ - V for drawing I | | j f i f
S S f f e l of thV me brf ci>> g™ g a fine footy colour to pTpeT
t f e tIm 1 " t« 1* « and upon laying i t T c k
on the canvas, I found it mixed well with white my at i f P S t Iffl ’pP »P g a colour ^ 1 1 1 « p g l * a neceffary colour in. painting! I ll mw, hadh, and ctrofive, and requires much ftffl to foften 3
P P P ‘- p t y S « m l ! « apt to think, that this natural''
Earth may wah^great ftetafi be fubffitufod fe its ro om w h e n la ft
»to the fire, tins earth made ho mom cmtfflatg S t he '
w e a e d I fiom the ah, «dofed iti <a;J tau s body V fo rm S d on *
re _ , ,lt: emitted no ill find!: keeping it in the fire till it
i f “ t aSifUd by the magnet, either thm or S B I f g femmgto have;acqaired a little rednefi, l wetted it
S f o t P w i t h * i “ ™ p it* and brown-umber
aqua, (brte vr made not the leall efferttfcence. I
T O f im b M one lump ft* it fe certamly a valuabk earth for
p a r in g in oifeas wdLas m Water-tblours. '
iThere are ftrata of clay for making bricks in fo many places
drat there rs hanfly a* pariflt feldom a large tenement m m g M
Aougl^more ^nei^ly found in the W and level lands than in the
M y , and not fo often near the flatty Sbil as the loamy.. O f white
days to CornwaU we have great (Juantatics; and feme very ufeful.
ThJLM r n? . arC 3 n moft remarkable which have readied my
n° i S \ A dray & found in the parifh of St. Agnes,
T m ? M f° r maki»g tobacco-pipes; but e i t h e r ^
& St& H ftoC f° ea% Pr°uUred, (as ft muff come from"
thence by land-carnage} it is at prefent dilbfed; and in the Weftem
towns, where they make great quantities of pipes, the day is brought
from Pool, in Dorfctfhitev .. ,p . .-.-pi.5
In the tenement of Amalebreh, in the parifh o f Tewidnek*,
twenty feet under the ferface, there is a firdtum of white clay. -
immaled in fair Water, k imbibed the water fo greedily, that
roa a nlltog effervefcence, difiolved eafily into a pafte, and the
r t r l 7 G^me.Hke ’ after ftirring, the fend mixed with the day -
f S i i l eravinS three eighths of the glebe fulpended in the water.
He larger fends or gravels were trarifparent, about the bignefs of a
' 1 That is, belonging to St. Ewine.
pepper