SOUTHERN DISTRICT. 



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district, the)- represent very perlccily the composition of the soil of the whole district. 

 We at once observe a great diminution of tlie quantity of lime and magnesia, and it is 

 highly probable that potash and soda arc also proportionally reduced in amount. Vege- 

 table or organic matter may abound, and yet the oxygenized products are deprived of 

 their bases ; for the soil is deficient in the bases for which these products have an affinity. 

 The next soil of which an analysis was made, was iai<en eiglit inches beneatli the sur- 

 face, upon the slope near the inclined plane at tlie village of Ithaca. 



A.NALYSI.-i. 



Water of absorption 1 "94 



Organic matter 3' 62 



Silicates 87-l'2 



Pero.xide of iron and alumina G'28 



Carbonate of lime 0*60 



Magnesia 0-12 



99 -08 



This analysis gave a larger amount of lime than is usually obtained from the soils of (he 

 district. It is, however, still too small in quantity to support a yearly cropping without a 

 sensible loss of fertility. 



The Hamilton group furnishes a soil which is nearly identical throughout the State. In 

 confirmation of this statement, we subjoin the analyses of a few additional soils, which 

 were evidently derived from this series of rocks. 



Soil from Gainsville. 



A-NALYSIS. 



Water and vegetable matter 7" 60 



Silicates 81-26 



CaTbonat-e of lime 0*12 



Magnesia trace. 



Peroxide of iron and alumina 10 -SO 



99-28 



This soil contains the greater part of its available lime in combination with a soluljje 

 organic acid. Color of the soil dark brown ; and it is easily pulverized, and, in drying, 

 does not become lumpy, or adhesive when wet. 



Soil from Greene county ■, near Mr. Stewart's, Greenville. 



Color light yellow or drab : it is full of rounded pebbles and fragments of tliin sandstone, 

 accompanied with the fossils of the Hamilton group. 



