The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome

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Title: The historie of the vvorld: commonly called, The naturall historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland Doctor of Physicke. The first [-second] tome
Author: Pliny, the Elder.
Publication: London :: Printed by Adam Islip,; 1634.
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Subject terms: Natural history -- Pre-Linnean works.
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CHAP. VI.

¶ Of the earth which Britaine and France loue so well.

THe Britaines and Frenchmen haue deuised another meanes to manure their ground, by a kind of lime-stone or clay, which they call Marga [i. Marle.] And verily they haue a great opinion of the same, that it mightily inricheth it & maketh it more plentiful. This marle is a certaine fat of the ground, much like vnto the glandulous kernels growing in the bodies of beasts, and it is thickned in manner of marrow or the kernell of fat about it.