14:8 CHRONICLES OF A CLAY FARM. 



than usual even with the Chronicler, when arrived 

 at the end of the last of these missives and the 

 questions they contained, as varied as the Post- 

 marks they bore he threw his eyes up at a many- 

 colored Geological Map of the United Kingdom, 

 hanging close beside him, and pictured to himself 

 the possibility, and the value, of such a Map, with 

 its strong colors under-shaded by the "Agricultural 

 customs" that further sub-divide its geological out- 

 lines. The curiously contrasted interrogatories sup- 

 plied by the letters he had waded through for 

 questions are mostly fertile in self-disclosure 

 would almost have furnished rudely the outlines of 

 such a Map. Perhaps, thought he, before the cen- 

 tury is out, the dream of 1835 may become a useful 

 reality.* 



* Happily, tho terms " Landlord and Tenant," as hero used, 

 have little application to the United States. As a matter of 

 interest, this chapter may afford us instruction, but it has 

 little application to tho American farmer. ED. 



