72 °N SEAWEED AS MANURE. 



lysis) what an important and extensive field will be opened 

 to the scientific world ! 

 The carbon of The pabulum of plants, and the origin of that immense 

 plants from quantity of carbonaceous matter annually produced in the 

 vegetable kingdom, will be easily and satisfactorily accounted 

 for, as originating from water alone, 

 Diffe-ent ap- Although the two substances hidrogen and charcoal differ 

 hydrogen and so much in appearance, yet, it may be a question whether 

 charcoal no the diamond and charcoal, or steam, in its greatest degree 

 argument. Q f rar j tVj anc i j ce or snow, do not differ quite as much. 

 This intended I do not mean by this communication to lay claim to any 

 only as a hint priority of discovery, but only to furnish a hint to others, 

 which, if improved by those who have leisure and ability to 

 pursue the inquiry, might lead to the discovery, 



I took no notes of the experiment* to which I have al- 

 luded, and certainly cannot, at this distant period, narrate 

 them from memory ; and, if I could, it is by no means 

 improbable, that they might be explained in a different 



manner. 



I am, Sir, yoqr obedient servant, 



JOHN NEW, M.D, 



Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Jersey to his 

 Friend in Glamorganshire, on the Use of Vraic as a Ma* 

 nure. Communicated by J. Franklen, Esq*, 



Seaweed good "T T 



manure for y RAIC, or its ashes, we esteem here good for all man- 

 itsashos'on nerpfsoil, whether deep and heavy, shallow or light; for 

 etrpng. we use it on all our lands. I think ashes agree best in the 



strong soil, as they lighten it, and open its pores ; and the 

 vraic in the light or shallow soil, for it keeps it moist in the 

 summer: yet our people use both together on all lands. 

 The ground receives no benefit from the vraic but for the 



* Bath Society's Papers, Vol, X, p. 258, 



year 



