HORIZONTAL WELLS 



803 



Annual Amount of Hop Duty. 



The preceding Tables are retained, as showing the history of our hop cultivation in 

 a way which cannot be continued. The duty on hops was repealed from September 

 16, 1862, so that since that period we have no means of obtaining, except through 

 indirect channels, any accurate statements as to production. 



The following is the last official return published of hops imported : . 



KORDEITJE is the name given by Proust to the peculiar starchy matter of 

 barley. It seems to be a mixture of the starch, lignine, and husks, which constitute 

 barley-meal. See BEER. 



HORDEUM VUIGARE. See BARLEY. 



HOREHOUND. The Marrubiutn vulgare, used in England as a simple domestic 

 remedy for coughs. 



HORIZONTAL WEXiXiS. Having given an article on ARTESIAN WELLS (which 

 see) it appears necessary that something should be said respecting the system proposed 

 by Mr. Lucas, in his work on ' Horizontal Wells, a new application of Geological 

 Principles to effect the Solution of the problem of Supplying London with Pure 

 Water,' 1874. 



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