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most valuable manure. They fall to powder on being 

 stirred. 



SEA-OUZE. 



Mr. Palgrave, at Coltishal, uses mucli sea-mud^ 

 scraped up by the bear from the bottom of Yarmouth 

 Haven : he lays on 40 loads per acre, and has thus ma- 

 nured 70 acres ; the improvement very great. 1 found, 

 on trial, that it is a calcareous mud: on scalds, or burning 

 places of sand or gravel, it forms a cold bottom, and is an 

 cfFedtual cure. 



Fifty loads per acre, of Sea-ouzc, have been used on the 

 upland sandy loams of Warham, with very great success; 

 superior crops the consequence. 



SEA-WEED. 



V/hat other name to assign to a very singular manure 

 on the coast at Thornham, I know not. In the great and 

 accurate map of the county, published by Mr. Faden, 

 there is a mark on the shore for what is called crabs, scalps 

 and oak-roots. Mr^ Rishton had the goodness to take 

 me to view this speiflacle, which is an extraordinary one : 

 it is evidently the ruins of a forest of large trees, the stubs 

 and roots remaining, but so rotten, that with a spade I dug. 

 into the centre of many, and might have done of all, with 

 as much ease as into a mass of butter. Wiiere the stumps 

 are not found, on digging I turned up a black mass of 

 vegetable fibres, apparently consisting of decayed branches, 

 leaves, rushes, fl.igs, &c. ; to what depth this vegetable 

 stratum extends is not known, but at some creeks on the 

 very edge of the sea, at low water, there is a very fine 

 soapy sea ouzc, at two or three feet depth. The extent 



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