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APPENDIX I. 



mire is of the same high value in the South American lands of the 

 Andes chain as the fertile Loss, accumulated by the great flood in 

 past ages at the foot of the Bavarian and Swiss Alps. It is a fact 

 full of meaning that the inhabitants of those parts of America 

 should have arrived at the same simple means of restoring to the 

 land the mineral constituents carried away by the crops, which 

 are at the present day generally resorted to also under similar 

 favourable conditions of the ground in the mountainous regions of 

 Asia Minor, Armenia, Grusia, Western Persia, as well as in the 

 north of Mesopotamia (Mossul), and, if I mistake not, in Thibet 

 also. The waters of the rivers Kur, Araxes, Euphrates and Tigris, 

 are in spring just as turbid and as much impregnated with mud, 

 which simply means earthy particles, as the Nile, and as the East 

 Persian river Herirud, which it is well known is altogether ab- 

 sorbed up in fields and gardens. The experience of ages past has 

 no doubt taught the inhabitants of these ancient countries, in both 

 hemispheres, this way of restoring to their fields the incombusti- 

 ble constituents removed from them in the produce carried away 

 to the large towns (Professor Dr. Moritz Wagner ; see supplement 

 to 'Augsb. Allg. Zeitung,' No. 36, February 5, and No. 173, 

 June 22, 1862). 



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ANALYSIS OF CLOVER MADE BY DR. PINCUS. 



100 parts of air-dried clover contained, 



