REVIEW. Ill 



There is one use made of the bones of the 

 human frame which it is rather shocking to 

 think of. It is well known that the bones of 

 other animals make a very excellent manure 

 for enriching the soil ; but it is not so often 

 understood that the bones of men are used for 

 this purpose ; and some of you, it may be, 

 never heard of the fact. 



You have read, I presume, about the great 

 battles which were fought in Germany and 

 France many years ago, in the time of Napo- 

 leon Bonaparte ; when thousands of men were 

 often left dead on the field, and their bones 

 sometime afterward almost covered the ground. 

 The Germans have long used bones as a 

 manure, in their hot houses. 



Within a few years, these human bones, it 

 is stated, have been brought to England, and 

 ground by means of steam-engines and other 

 powerful machinery, and used as manure. It 

 is computed that in 1832, a million of bushels 

 of bones of men and horses, were brought from 

 the continent over to England, and used by the 

 farmers of Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire, and 

 the neighboring counties. 



