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&c. was such that if the projector appeared 

 on the pier, he woukl stand a chance of being 

 throAvn over. This feeling, if it ever existed, 

 has long died away, as the tramway has been 

 found as advantageous to these men as it is to 

 the public, enabling them to earn a better liv- 

 ing, and with less labour, than formerly. 



JVIr. Smith having in early life given much 

 attention to agriculture, and having always 

 retained his interest in the subject, was led to 

 think that the sewage matter of towns might 

 be turned to good account in place of the im- 

 ported guano, the stock of which bids fair to 

 be soon exhausted. Accordingly he prepared 

 a plan for so dealing with the sewage of Lon- 

 don, which he submitted to the Speaker, at 

 the time that a committee was sitting on the 

 subject of the purification of the Thames. The 

 Speaker in return sent him a number of official 

 reports on the subject of the application of the 

 sewage of towns, and expressed his concur- 

 rence in his views. His plan was very like 



