26 THE CHRISTIAN NATURALIST. 



degree, would, it is evident, be highly injurious to the 

 agricultural labours of this season. 



We should also be led at this time to observe, not 

 without grateful emotions, how well every climate and 

 soil is suited to answer the design of its good Creator. 

 In this kingdom, for example, every variety of soil may 

 be found which characterizes the whole globe ; and we 

 find likewise that each is well adapted, by one circum- 

 stance or another, to yield an ample return for the 

 care bestowed upon its cultivation. 



This observation may here be fitly illustrated by an 

 example which has immediately fallen under the 

 writer's observation. Throughout the whole extent of 

 the lands forming the Nof-thern angle of this county, 

 and flanking the sea from the parish of Morwenstow 

 to that of St. Gennys, and for the distance of at least 

 twelve miles towards Devonshire, the soil is a stiflf 

 yellow clay, resting upon a stratum of soft Greywacke. 

 Lime, which is so necessary an ingredient in the 

 cultivation of corn, is no where to be met with, 

 throughout this district. But what the land itself 

 does not supply, is afforded in the most liberal manner 

 by the sea; On the shores of the North coast of 



