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LIBER XVII · CAPUT 6

THE EIGHT KINDS OF EARTH BOASTED OF BY THE GAULS AND GREEKS

THE EIGHT KINDS OF EARTH BOASTED OF BY THE GAULS AND GREEKS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
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THE EIGHT KINDS OF EARTH BOASTED OF BY THE GAULS AND GREEKS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Alia est ratio, quam Britanniae et Galliae invenere, alendi eam ipsa, genusque, quod vocant margam. spissior ubertas in ea intellegitur et quidam terrae adipes ac velut glandia in corporibus, ibi densante se pinguitudinis nucleo.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

There is another method, which has been invented both in Gaul and Britain, of enriching earth by the agency of itself, being * * * * and that kind known as marl. This soil is looked upon as containing a greater amount of fecundating principles, and acts as a fat in relation to the earth, just as we find glands existing in the body, which are formed by a condensation of the fatty particles into so many kernels.