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tudes would soon become too salt to perform their intended see 
Next he pointed out their use in forming sand- banks, which beca 
i i lds fo 
Next, this commingling of the waters of several regions tended to change 
and renew from time to time the soil of these banks,—which, like ma- 
nuring and working our fields, was found to be necessary for — 
these extensive pastures for the fish. Lastly, vei poten ng dow 
soon be nt wn as extensive eri rendering whole tractevef 
our temperate zones uninhabitable wilds. Dr. Scoresby concluded by 
pointing out several meteorological influences of these currents, by 
sing extensive fogs and winds more or les 
6. On the employment of the higher Sulphids of Calcium as a 
“means of preventing and destroying the Oidium Tuckeri, or Grape 
Disease ; =i om” Asttey P. Price, (Proc. Brit. Assoc., 1853; Athen. 
1100 0.)—OF many substances which have been employed to arrest 
the eae effects of this disease, none appear to have been so pre- 
eminently successful as sulphur, whether employed in mh strat of pow- 
der o wers of sulphur, or by sublimation in hous affected. 
Nenvidiomading the several methods described for its application to the 
aware that any had been offered in 1851, when 
experiments were instituted, by which sulphur might be teitooaley dis- 
tributed over the branches, and be there deposited in such a manner as 
to be to some extent firmly attached to the vine. Three houses at Mar- 
gate, in the vicinity of the one in which the disease first made its ap- 
pearance in England, having been for the space of five years infected 
with the disease, and notwithstanding the employment of sulphur as 
powdered and flowers of sulphur, no abatement in its ravages could 
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adopted, and although but few applications were made, the stems became 
coated with a deposit of sulphur, and the disease gradually but effect- 
ually diminished, in so much that the houses are now entirely free 
from any trace of ~~ or symptoms of infection. The young 
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with dise 
of that year received no further treatment. The vines in the i 
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