the Secondary and Tertiary Formations. 341 
bushels, but every mason of whom I have made inquiries, and 
who has measured them, says their capacity is continually 
changing ; that most of them contain Jess than a common flour 
barrel, and that three bushels and a half is probably near the 
average measure of their contents. ‘Their large size is made up 
by enormously thick staves, and heads about.an inch thick, and 
frequently large empty spaces remain in the cask. Yet for this 
meagre amount of lime, the people of South Carolina are will- 
ing to-pay a sum for which they themselves might make full 
eight times as much; and by thus rendering it cheap, the labor 
lost to their favorite crop would not be missed, when thereby a 
bale of cotton to the acre would not be considered a maximum 
product, nor two ears of corn to each of the widely separated 
hills a subject worthy of remark. 
weve prejudice-of-workmen-=their not biking | to nse.a different 
that they have been 5 o—is one reason 
oa the TI n lime has successfully competed with all 
the - lime “ rm. : 
ether equal tovit from another Tooley ot not ring even nied, 
inferior price. ‘There fthis a short 
time since in New York, fg excelle nt lime from. Rhode 
Island. hardly finding a market at any price. > Most of. grt 
sylvania lime contains maguesia, and yet’celebrated as is the 
Philadelphia mortar for whiteness and durability, and as are the 
fine farms of Chester and. Lancaster counties, which are enrich= 
» against 
Pee eee ee ~ ; ages eee lime 
Pedowware! canal is opened, tne 
soon rival that from Thomaston in our southern ports; ieee the 
judice and a want of ent long keep it 
known, - This rock belongs wonthesalie ie: forination; and 
resembles much that which I have seen in the western- _part of 
New Jersey. Its composition is no doubt the same, and this is 
Seen in Prof. nal catonte of lime fom serenf-ve 1 igh 
portion me from seventy-five to eighty= 
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