356 On marking the Dips of Strata, Mc, 



On brewing this malt, I had the satisfaction to find the 

 wort tasted n)uch richer than that brewed from EngHsh 

 malt*. My instrument (Richardson's saccharometer) con- 

 firmed my observation, having extracted 12 lbs. more of 

 saccharine matter per (jiiarler than t'roni the English malt. 



The result of these different experiments appears to be 

 in favour of llie Northern naked barley as follows : 

 Nearly seven pecks of flour per quarter more 



than obtained from English barley, at 2i. 6c?. s. d. 



per peck 17 Q 



In its malted ;slate, 12 lbs. more of saccharine 

 matter per quarter extracted than from English 



malt, at 15. 6d. per lb 18 O 



From this account it may be fairly presumed, that the 

 Northern naked barley is worth from \Ts. to IS.?, more than 

 the English, for the purposes of mealing, malting, and 

 brewing. 



Wishing this communication may prove useful to agri- 

 culturists in general, and acceptable to this Society, 

 I remain your obedient servant, 



Richard Flower. 



LXV. On the Improprkty of assigmng vetu Meanings to 

 the established IvIarks 7ised in Science: and nn observing 

 the Directions and Dips o/' Strata. By a Correspon- 

 dent. 



To Mr. Tiiloch. 



Sir, yJs reading the printed proposals for « Mineralogical 

 Survey of the County of Salop y issued in May 1810, by Mr. 

 Arthur Aikin, I was much struck, on examining the speci- 

 men of his intended Maps, which is annexed to this pro- 

 spectus, to find that small ui-rotcs are there used, not to de- 

 note by their heads or points, the dip or fall of the measures, 

 as has on all previous occasions, 1 believe, been the case, 

 and as is particularly recommended on geognosical Maps 

 in that highly important volume, the first of the Wernerian 

 Transactions, not to mention their invariable use on Maps 

 in general, to mark the descent of the stream!*, to find that 

 Mr. A. proposes, to apply iliem to mark the 7756? of the 

 Strata, or turns their barbed points the contrary way to what 

 has ever before been done : I hope that this was a n)ere 

 oversight, and that Mr. A. will be induced to restore the 



* Mr. Flower has since hilormed the secrctiiry, Uiut ihe beer proves ei- 

 c«Uciu. 



know» 



