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hot cauflick lime, at the latter end of the month of March, 

 and the confequence was fuch as might be expe&ed from fuch 

 a procefs : I had the fatisfaftion to hear, from another quar- 

 ter, that though the crop of that year was fpoiled, it was fup- 

 pofed, by fome people, that the land was the better for the 

 lime for many years after. 



Lime is fold, at the fale-kilns in this county, at an high 

 price, 14s. per chaldron — and this prefents a formidable ob- 

 ftacle to the general ufc of it in agriculture. Coals are 

 dear, and the war has advanced the price of them — but chalk 

 lime-flonc abounds every where with us, and may be got on. 

 eafv terms ; fo that, I am perfuaded, notwithstanding the pre- 

 fent price of coal, a farmer may burn his own lime at gs. 6d. * 

 per chaldron : allowing even 3^ chaldrons of lime to an acre, 

 the coft of manure is only il. 12s. qd. and the charges of cart- 

 ing it are infinitely lefs than thofe of carting dung fufiicicnt 

 for an acre of land, as are alio loading and fprcading, 



Part of our lands are diftant from the homefteads three 

 miles — the expence of manuring thele lands is immenfe ; 

 three journies in a day, is the work of four (lout horfes. — 

 Thefe horfes would, in one day, draw lime fufiicicnt to ma- 

 nure two acres of that land, which, if manured with dung, 

 would require the work of four horles (at three journeys per 

 day, at only nine loads per acre) fix days. 



Chalk lime- .lone is (oft, why may it not be calcined with 

 peat p 



The brick-makers at Cley, who fupply us here with th.it 

 article for building, of a moft excellent quality, ufc peat in 

 burning them; perhap , the heat may be fo quick and intenfe, 

 as to vitrify the lime hone : perhaps, the alkaline fait, v. 

 the peat contains, aote that vitrttwaiiqn, 



But, 



