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period of its being burnt, it became heavier 

 in weight during the short interval while it 

 passed from the retailer's cart into yours, 

 from some chemical action which subsided 

 very soon after its changing hands. Hap- 

 pily these obstacles are removed, and these 

 odious exactions by land and water carriage 

 become matters of history, like the monopoly 

 of the East India Company, and are alike 

 held in as fond remembrance by those who 

 writhed under them, and have seen " the end 

 of them." 



Lime is now taken by railway and canal 

 on reasonable terms, and the cost price per 

 ton one-half less than in my time, by which 

 many hundred acres of land in the adjacent 

 counties of Chester and Lancaster are fer- 

 tilized, large breadths of which were formerly 

 sown with wheat on a summer fallow, with 

 no other help than that received by the de- 

 composition of the turf and exposure to the 

 atmosphere. The superiority of lime as a 



