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their variety, and beauty, and wonderful glory and splendor, 

 infinitely surpass the highest triumphs of human art and luxury. 

 I think proper here to subjoin several analyses of guano with 

 which I have been favored by a most accurate chemist, Mr. 

 E. F. Teschemacher, to whose unremitted kindness, in various 

 forms, I am most deeply obliged. Indeed, when I think of the 

 debts which I have incurred, in this way, and which have been 

 forced upon me, on this side of the water, I fear nothing is left 

 for me but to take advantage of the act of general bankruptcy, 

 with the mortification of feeling, from the number of my cred 

 itors, how very small a dividend can be made. 



&quot; Dear Sir : 



&quot; I have taken the first moment I had to spare, to fulfil 

 my promise of giving you some details relative to guanoes espe 

 cially the analyses of the various kinds imported within the last 

 eighteen months into this country, which have come under my 

 cognizance. The analyses were performed by me during the 

 course of my business, and are so arranged that a comparison may 

 be easily made between them. Upon comparing these analyses 

 with those of other analysts, I find them generally to agree in all 

 their essential characters. 



uric, 

 form- 



. 40 

 64 



&quot; No. 1. Peruvian. 



&quot; 100 parts consist of 9 parts 

 of ammonia, combined with 

 phosphoric, carbonic, 

 and organic acids, 

 ing, of 



Arnmoniacal salts, . 



Animal organic matter, 



Sulphate and muriate of 

 potash and soda, . . .114 



Phosphate of lime and 

 magnesia, 294 



Sand, 1 



Water, 114 



100 

 &quot; The Peruvian contains 



11J parts of uric acid. 



&quot; No. 2. Bolivian. 



&quot; 100 parts contain 104 parts 



ammonia, combined as in No. 



1, forming, of 



Arnmoniacal salts, ... 36 

 Animal organic matter, . 5 

 Sulphate and muriate of 



potash and soda, . . . 15J 

 Phosphate of lime and 



magnesia, 27J 



Sand, 14 



Water, 14 



100 



&quot; The Bolivian contains 3 

 per cent, of uric acid. 



