38 THE DAILY LIFE OF OUE FARM. 



comparatively low figure a considerable tract of bog- 

 land, above which a stream ran along the side of a 

 mountain, on which there were here and there accumu- 

 lated, amidst the granite boulders, mounds of " lime- 

 clay " — that is, very finely comminuted limestone 

 embedded in clay, and turfed over as the rest of the 

 hill-side. His plan was to direct the stream to the 

 base of these, which the floods gradually undermined, 

 until whole masses fell, quite colouring the torrent. 

 These charged waters were then spread by carriers 

 over the low-lying bog-land beneath ; the heath, &c., 

 on which arresting the flow caused a gradual deposit, 

 that in the course of about three years produced a rich 

 carpet of clovers. The property he was thus enabled 

 to sell at a profit of fifty per cent, in a very few years. 

 It was a common practice in Ireland to haul lime on to 

 such surfaces ; but the expense wasw usually too great 

 to allow of profit in the improvement. That which 

 deserves credit is the seizing an opportunity that had 

 escaped so many. It is easy to copy, but not to ori- 

 ginate, although the mind may be awakened consider- 

 ably by the record of such cases. With that view I 

 write. 



To revert to rinderpest. It is to be hoped that this 

 compound of onions, &c.,.so nobly made public by Mr. 

 Worms, may prove an antidote to the ruinous plague. 

 Most undoubtedly effectual for stone in the human 

 species is onion-water ; a recipe for which we have to 

 thank the Arabian medicine-men, I believe. 



Curious is it how superstition lives in England. My 

 Celtic country I had supposed to be the fastness of ghost 

 stories. There, there is no flood-gate, where some un- 

 happy spirit stays not, charmed by local enchantment 



