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ANALYSIS of TURF ASHES. By LORD TULLAMORE, 

 M.R.I. A. Communicated in a Letter to the Rev. DoBor 

 ELRINGTON. 



My Dear Sir, 



VTIVE me leave to fubmit to you fome experiments I Read, Not. 

 happened to make in the courfe of laft fummer, during my re- 

 fidence at Charleville Foreft. 



I AM tempted to communicate them, becaufe their refult to me 

 appears fomewhat curious, though very different from what I 

 wifhed or expedled ; and I leave it to your better judgment to 

 decide whether fuch puny efforts are worthy even for a moment, 

 the confideration of the Royal Irifh Academy. 



While Bogs predominate fo generally though this ifland, 

 th;y muft attradt univerfal attention, at lead in an agri- 

 cultural point of view ; and every fuccefsful effort towards 

 reftoring them to a ftate of fertility is of great national im- 

 portance. 



My 



