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belly white, refembling the common weafel in every 

 thing, except in the (uperiority of its fize. 



Since writing the feftion on foffils, I am informed 

 that the quarries, opened near Moira, of dark blue 

 (tone in contaft with the limeftone, are bafalt ; and 

 that a quarry, opened in the demefne of Dromore 

 houfe, being infpected by a gentleman of great inge- 

 nuity and experience in natural hiftory, has been de* 

 clared to be of the fame fpecies j and that on taking 

 away fand at Bangor for manure, turf- bog was found 

 under it, on the ftiore near the bridge ; and on boring 

 near Belfaft, a bed of mufcles was found, nearly an 

 hundred feet under the furface. 



SECT. 9. Of raiftng White-thorn Hedges from Cuttings , 

 both of Branches and Roots. 



JM&- HERON, watchmaker in Li(burn, (hewed me a 

 hedge of fome years growth, one part of which, . con- 

 lifting of feveral perches in length, was planted with 

 cuttings of white-thorn, when the other was planted 

 with quicks j the part planted with cuttings was in 

 every way equal to that planted with quicks -, the cut- 

 tings a part of the (hoots of two years. Mr. Heron 

 practifed this mode in the Ards feveral years ago. 

 Another way of raifing quicks is by fcattering the 

 roots, cut from quicks about to be planted, on a bed 



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