E. 
been found to be without the slightest action. As to 
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ve 
the appearance and quality of the stock. So that 
for this aden a sonny higher price might have 
been obtained 
To us in ‘England, ‘thé only result which — 
lows the ascertainment of the 
tory a 
ledge of the cian of salt on animals, would be the 
abandonment of it in farm practice as soon as it is 
shown w be no value. t on the Continent it 
immediately eg pa 0 aspect. Salt is there 
— with an 
ments as those shaved 
the advocates for its continuance. 
of health appears to be somewhat facilitated by the 
modern of salt. 
cases it has 
use 0 eattle and sheep — ; but 
otherwise the F > perim nts may gen rally be 
held to ö | experience also, 
th ref 4 as a manure, we are as yet 
without any s acto: atio 
places it has been found to br righten and strengthen 
the straw, but in by far 8 majori 
ity of c 
are as yet entirely ignorant. 
ould 328 this question as > its usefulness be 
answered in the affirmative, — vai of salt in this 
country vill never bea barri its meu 
in agriculture. At all e vents “it is a subject w ches 
e in avin: 
ss at subject, which in France is 
= by the casei 
— nia r any of our sea- 
ane e quantities of fish are. 2 have 
often An for Nee up the refuse fishery 
ich as tains a proportion of animal 
matter, is both an eaper and more likely to be use- 
to the farmer than pure salt. 
Tun Weald of Kent, Sussex, me 
the term in i st extensi 
r ter 
rolled pebbles before ahea oned. id 0 
by er zones of d anes deposits, 
ve sense, for the whole | sand and t 
= the area within the See — of the North and chalk escarpments on 
exterior to it, we rene zones of chalk, and of the 
su 1 tertiaries. 
w the points pase by Sir R. Murcutson, 
and Mr. Mantin, respecting the superficial deposits 
t| of this * — are these. The 3 Err is dis- 
pe te or to the 
alk esca Manet i there are feii of these zones, the 
outermost consisting of slightly worn chalk flin nts, 
mixed with many of the rolled 1 1 85 of the older 
bas (London S Plastic clay), theinner zone 
mposed either exclusively of vi and sub- 
— chal pes or of ame materials |t 
sparingly mix ertiary outliers; with thei 
nthe Wea 
denudation are 
which Mr. ine ole the subcretaceous 
and the Wealden zon The es of the 
—— and the valleys of ‘the really central ridge 
zone 
r ‘surrounding ridges ; 
e but the valleys occasionally present thick accumu- 
lations of re-aggregated clay or loam, 4 — from 
the 3 ng hills. Towards its western ex remi 
lumps of bog iron ore, provincial called“ ag are 
— eei found in the loa d in former times, 
When the wood of the Weald was more abundant, 
they were smelted in its iron furnaces in which 
charcoal was used as fuel. 
In ‘the suberetaceous zone of superficial deposits, 
there are many localities, both on the north and the 
south of the central ri ridge, covered with heaps of 
drifted and ae flints, 5 with 
n chert, ironstone, and sandstone, of the neighbouring 
and subjacent rocks, which fill hollows in the erode 
ron and are piled up in heaps, to heights varying 
m 50 to 300 feet above the existing drainage. 
few rounded pebbles, like those of the eocene ter- 
tiaries, are also occasi 
Although, on the u 
ormations are generally — 
detritus. this Sir 
Soe URCHISO 
from s 
urrey—using — that those flints which cover the lower meg 
e Wealden w from the 
th, but 
were not derived 
the n th and sou 
one 3 m uth 
‘the Report on the Agri. Geology of Engl 
and Wales, Sree gate in the ive — — the Jour- 
val Agri 
t 
England,“ by Dr. 
ridges, over the other strata, obscuring their out- 
i oil. 
fal and fertile slopes of th t 
ab Papers recently published by Sir Ropertox|Susséx, and the p of Kani 5 oy te 
33 ms Mr. Martın, of Pulborough ; the Rother and its affluents take their courses rough | a 
8 5 A’ oe cà the Geological Societ. As longitudinal-fissure valleys the central line 
other in the ] azine,” t ipheaval, beds of diluvial loam 
papers whiel directed chiefly to theoretical | up of the washi of the surrounding — 5 
eee E ee e information , the and give fertility to localities which would 5 | 
` a i - their | be of comparatively little ain e.) Sir R.Mourcuison, 
1 “a a 5 i my de x — observes of the Wealden zone of detritus, that 
ical importance to agriculture, | i 
whatever may be the fate of the ane orl 
be right | i 
the —— and which 
of water, whatever their nature have 
ened wo NS tran ansported these flints vite 
The transv 
Weald « TRDE, — —— to the sea and northwards 
into the valley o hames, contain, likewise, 
—— of loam, ie sand, and chalk débris, 
5 sharply — flints, cemented in 
es by ferruginous, in others by calcareous 
mipien into ae called in East Sussex Combe 
roc 
T 
With respect to the agricultural paar of 
p. superficial deposits within the a of the 
2 75 declares that “on ries beauti- 
d and during the denudation. of the Wealden 
rse gorges by which the rivers of the them 
repeated in the “ gricultural Go 
of England and Wee Ch cl . . Cele | 
8 the which hae of the v atiations ea 
pr contours av 
of the preien deposi 8 aged ‘the dis Bi. 
It is no part of the — of the t t 
Gazette ” to — the conflicti 
— as is the period: w 
Tham 
our present geological maps, the areas 
> certain — of fossils, for that is nearh al 
the: inform which tho vey. 
of the — geology would also furnish geologi 
with much sounder data th 
cat oa 
ity sent, on which to found their theories respecti 
the later geological epochs vate medi pe 
=. the present order of thin 
opinion respecting the deposits of theconntay 
ath of the Thames is, Ff i of 045 
oe the one subangu la fin 
e parts with pebbles of the older ra 
constitating 1 modification of the up l 
ertiaries of the district north of the | 
that this ssid was apt off the flanks, of the cha i 
during the fracture of it, along an east and west 
area, 
The other and strictly angular flint detritus, with 
after the emergence of Britain from 
ore or glacial sea, and after it had been — 
by nearly the same group of elephantine mammals 
which had inhabited it before that su 
The loamy and other deposits of the Weald vil 
thus be on the parallel of the 3 of soe) a 
thorpe — water) and Nar clay (marine 
are spre r the denuded surface of ae — 
meee sd Norfolk nd — 7. 
in some 
. 
seeing that it is only atar at app ai to 
loamy deposits of low situations, such as those of the 
Happing and Flegg Hundreds ‘in No Dorie ree 
Little Hampton, and Bo 
— it fr 
however, expressed his readin to. change 
soy other on which geologists shall be able toa 
Till they agree on a better the name of “warp * 
as well be re 
ES 
ROTHAMSTED. AND. THE CRITIC ma 
Dvurine the last six or seven months there 
appeared a series of articles i 2 the, darlene ier 
st t 
is more especially distin y-a more or | admitted, is 3 
ies and zd papi e as to the period | copious admixtu oam, by which wold es . d 
get of ike Th ed whi 1 sterile 1 of the subjacent clay is neutralised. serve to . le a iy 
i ood crops of corn are thus visible al 
as 3 which wwe l to oF argillaceous zone, which otherwis ud beso mre aae writer least, essential 4o i 
Sit be wrong, the pn beari : sages ries ed by oaks or by weak G thor | tion and analysis of the subject of wh 
which a PR SN e geology o of ikewise remarks of the broad — of Little | Secondly, that he sbould be 
may be considered as Ps * sg attention, | Hampton and Bognor, that they have all been more tegaran of his pager It has, however, 
structure of the ar sf established. or verspread with detritus, which, although of 8 
a valley of elevation and l may atom peis gr 5 8 * agriculturist, has had 
understood from the i * 1 ; y | precisely the same origin, e pure angular flint * 
=r — England, and from the — et 4 2 Ë — at side “No one of separation 
D of half tte hoa ate reddish clay, and ide f fints 1m 1 — 
r f within | masses of clay, loam, sand Kc. This plai 
. posed of the cat of rich arable Jand i chi efly composed = the 
me 
spread with angular chalk flints, Instea 
arly, But th be mate- 
and also sli — over- 
of bei 
e Sou are muc 
ent is 
paper on pre “ Geo 
Roy Agric ultural — vol. va part II.), and 
fli . 
the tow fey through this clay or be bf of —.— 
cee to er announced i z Aine 
of | eritic’s readers, that — 
al under review, may : 
the mind of the intelligent 
