ON MANURES, 



187 



neck ; because the resistence which vapour meets with in itt 



escape from the latter will in all probability augment its 



temperature. 



The foregoing remarks are confined to the. gas of water, The author 



which is supposed by the new hypothesis to exist independ- *»asmade«m 

 rr / , i¥ , *: j penments on ■ 



ently in the atmosphere ; but 1 possess observations and expe- the permanent 



riments respecting the permanent gasses, and their mutual g a «es. 



impenetrability, which want of room obliges me to omit at 



present. 



Middleshaw, I remain, &c. 



May 22d, 1809. JOHN GOUGH. 



V. 



An Essay on Manures, By Arthur Young, Esq., F.R.S* 



/'Continued from p. 128. J 



Paring and Burning. 



JL HESE are mechanical operations ; and though nothing Much mlscon- 



is directly added to the soil by them, yet the eifects are in ce .» ve{ * and 



J . misrepre* 



many instances very extraordinary, and as such ought to sented. 



be treated of here. There is no subject in husbandry 



about which so many misconceptions are afloat, or such 



misrepresetations hazarded, as on this. 



1. The Nature of the Ashes resulting from this Operation. 



We shall examine the result of burning 



1st Vpo-Ptablfs Effects of par- 



1st. Vegetables. ingandbum- 



!|. Clay, jn gi 



2. Loam, 



3, Sand, 



4. Chalk, 



5. Peat: 



under one of which heads every soil may be arranged* 



These two articles will include all that generally comes Destruction of 

 within the sphere of paring and burning ; for the animal worms *nd 

 substances in this case are top inconsiderable to demand at- 

 tention, 



