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moimtaiiious regions of Asia ]Miuor, Armenia, Grusia, Western 

 Persia, as well as in the north of INIesopotaniia (JNIossuI), and, if 

 I mistake not, in Thibet also. The waters of the rivers Kur, 

 Araxes, Euphrates and Tigris, are in spring just as turbid and 

 as much impregnated vnth mud, which simply means earthy 

 particles, as the Nile, and as the East Persian river Herirud, 

 which it is well known is altogether absorbed up in fields and 

 gardens. The experience of ages past has no doubt taught the 

 inhabitants of these ancient countries, in both hemispheres, this 

 way of restoring to their fields the incombustible constituents 

 removed from them in the produce carried away to the large 

 to\vns (Professor Dr. Moritz Wagner ; see Supplement to ' Augsb. 

 Allg. Zeitung,' No. 36, February 5, and No. 173, June 22, 

 1862). 



APPENDIX I (page 341). 



ANALYSIS OF CLOVER MADE BY DR. PINCUS. 



100 parts of air-dried clover contained, — 



