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the sugar parsnips yields about eight hundred bushels to the 

 acre. 



One of the incidental advantages of soiling is the production 

 of a large amount of valuable manure which may be saved 

 under cover, and to which may be' added the refuse of the 

 kitchen and garden, whereby its quantity may be indefinitely 

 increased. 



In the foregoing observations upon soiling, I have been dis- 

 posed merely to allude to the subject, believing that those 

 planters who wish to keep good stock, either of horses or cat- 

 tle, will be inclined to try this as a part of their system of 

 husbandry ; a system, w r hich, if carried out, will not fail to 

 give them a good stock of cattle and cows as well as horses, 

 all of which may be kept cheaper and better than in the mode 

 now pursued in this State. 



CHAPTER XY. 



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PALAEONTOLOGY. 



Fossils of the Green Sand and Tertiary Mammals Horsfe Hog Masto- 

 don and Elephant Deer Whales, or Cetaceans, 



The distinguishing features or characteristics of any age or 

 epoch, can be known only from the history of the men 

 who were then living. The characteristics of the age when 

 the Romans were gaining an ascendancy in the world, can 

 only be known from the individual or collective memories of 

 Roman citizens. A history competent to give us a knowledge 

 of those times, would blend together the personal appearance 

 of men, their habits, dress, food, etc., from which we should 

 also obtain facts or inferences respecting the country, its ani- 

 mals and plants, its climate, topography and grand divisions. 

 So of Greece, Egypt and Palestine. The memoiies of the ac- 

 tions of these nations in their generations, would furnish us the 

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