CONTENTS. 



RESIDENCE of the Author Extensive prospect on the banks of 

 the Severn Welsh mountains, and passages of the river 

 Roman encampment upon a British site Roman roads 

 Coins Skeletons of men and horses Traces of a royal forest 

 Soils of the Author's parish Limestone its power of absorb- 

 ing moisture, and acquiring carbonic acid its various uses its 

 great abundance its existence and origin pre-eminent amongst 

 the wonders of the creation Rocks formed in the parish by the 

 coral polypi analysis of Rocks of deposit analysis of Lead 

 ore Carbonate of strontian A traveller's foot burned off by 

 his sleeping on a lime-kiln Residences upon limestone soils sup- 

 posed healthy The village affords ^employment for labourers- 

 Amount of limestone disposed of Praiseworthy conduct of a 

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Analysis of soils considered as fallacious in what the real good- 

 ness of a soil consists Dairy processes in the Author's parish 

 its agriculture nature of its grass lands Wild plants Predo- 

 minating plants in corn-fields Soils will produce particular 

 herbage Mode of saving hay in bad seasons Saving wheat 



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The potato culture of different sorts of planted by dibble and 

 spade expense and profit of cultivating its effect upon the 

 soil not considered as injurious sketch of the history of 

 this extraordinary root idle stories respecting its introduction 

 Lord Bacon recommends the use of it with grain in the brew- 

 ing of ale some soils not favourable for the root quantity 

 cultivated for the London market introduced later than tobacco 

 its great value as an article of food our ignorance of the first 

 habitats of the Cerealia Tendency of plants to revert to their 

 original creation the original species of the potato cannot now 

 be ascertained component parts of some varieties of the 

 most valuable production that Europe has received from Ame- 



