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Xo. i, from Midland railway, 183 miles, York gum and scrub 

 country ; Xo. 2, from Midland railway, 183 miles, morrel gum, 

 3 feet over limestone ; Xo. 3, from Midland railway, 183 miles, 

 sub-soil from Xo. 2 ; Xo. 4, from Armadale, slope of hill, white 

 gum chieHy ; Xo. 5, from Armadale, slope of hill, white gum 

 chiefly ; Xo. 6, from Armadale, alluvial soil, flooded gum, ti-tree, 

 bracken, reeds. 



No. 7, from Mooraloo district, mahogany ; Xo. 8, from 

 Mooraloo district, white gum ; Xo. g, trom Coolup, near 

 river, red gum and jarrah ; \<>. 10, from four miles inland from 



ilton, red gum, paper-bark, and peppermint; Xo. 11, from 

 Moorauoppiu, -and plain ; Xo. u, from Mooranoppin, salmon gum. 



It will In- seen from the analyses that soils contain some pro- 

 portion of all the element-, that enter into the plant food. In the 

 analyses of the ^>ils of this colony the magnesia and sulphuric acid 





