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N. B. The drawings [in Plate I.] are intended to give 

 fome idea of the progrefs of the icy columns. A. reprefents 

 three (lacks of one night old ; B. ditto, of two nights' 

 growth; C. ditto, of three j and D. a greater number, as 

 they appear after the froft has continued many days. On 

 all occafions there are numerous columns (hooting up by 

 the fide of one another, fo that the general furface of thp 

 ground is nearly as even as before the froft; though that 

 furface is by means ofthefe columns lifted a. good deal 

 higher than its natural level. D. reprefents a few fibrous- 

 rooted grafles on the furface of the ground. At E. is re- 

 prefented a (talk of broad -clover, with its root forced up 

 by the furrounding columns of ice, and broken off. F is 

 the fame root after a thaw, the columns of ice being 

 melted, the earth fubfided, and the plant falling down faded. 

 A feclion of the earth is here fuppofed to be made to (hew 

 the portion of the roots. 



Article XIX. 

 Bijhop of Killalue's Method of cultivating Potatoes. 



. [Given by him to Mr. Woodbine.] 



WHEN your land is left in fuch an exfiaufted 

 condition, that it will not anfwer to plough 

 it again for a crop, the method of bringing it again 

 into Jieart by Potatoes is as follows ; — 



Spread your manure fn lines (of about five or fix 

 feet broad) upon the ground, about twelve or four- 

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