460 Canal between the Allanlic and Pacific. 



The Indian and Chinese methods of well pulverising, without 

 turning the soil, ni;iy, it is thought, be practised with success to 

 a great extent in Britain. One ploughing for wheat, though he 

 has not considered it necessarij, has been adopted this year ; and 

 lidge-ploughing in the winter, for the spring crops, which keeps 

 the land dry, and exposes it to the action of the air and frost. 

 The wheat stubbles, with a few faga;ots, have been used in burning 

 a considerable breadth of soil. By using the wheat stubble as 

 fuel, 30 to 35 loads of soil and stublde ashes have been made per 

 acre on the land. The same stubble, had it been collected and 

 carried at a great expense from the land, would not have yielded 

 more than 10 loads of dung from the dung-heap. Besides the 

 oeconomy of making manure in the field on which it is to be laid, 

 the operation of raking out the roots tends to clear the land 

 nmch; and it may in this manner, with the new implement, be 

 made, in a very short time, as clean as a garden. None can con- 

 tend that cecononiy in the processes of cultivation is not the beat 

 means for completely relieving the agriculturist from the weight 

 of that load that now oppresses him. 



CANAL BETWEKN THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC. 



[From the National Intelligencer.] 



Among many advantages of a commercial nature which would 

 infalliblv spring from the emancipation and attendant independ- 

 ence of South America, the greatest perhaps of all has hitherto 

 been little noticed. The most momentous event in favour of the 

 peaceful ii'.tercourse of nations, which the physical circumstances 

 of the globe present to the enterprise of man, is the formation 

 of a navigable passage across the isthmus of Panama. It is 

 remarkable, that this magnificent undertaking, pregnant with 

 consequences so important to mankind, and about which so little 

 is known in this ccuntrv, is so far from being a romantic and 

 chimerical project, that it is not onlv practicable but easy. T!ie 

 river Chagre, which falls into the Atlantic at the town of the 

 same name, about 1 8 leagues to the westward of Porto Bello, 

 is navigable as far as Cruzes, within five leagues of Panama. 



But though the formation of a canal from this place to Panama, 

 facilitated by the vallcv through which the present road passes, 

 appears to present no verv formidable obstacles, t!;ere is still a 

 better expedient. At the distance of five leagues from the mouth 

 of the Chagre, it receives the river Trinidad, which is navigable 

 to Embarcadoro, and from thence to Panama is a distance of 

 30 miles, through a level country, with a fine river to sup|)ly 

 water for the canal, and no difficulty whatever to counteract the 

 undertaking. — The ground has been survcved; and not the prac- 

 ticability onlv, but the facility of ihe work completely ascertained. 



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