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d sale of land i * > al rate of interest, and sometimes more, I fear, is | rich in phosphoric acid. It is not, however, to thease 
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nical difficulties of title and legal doubts, he says : | very narrow man and taki much less interest, extremity of the south-east r. 
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that if the transfer of — — simplified, its value countries. Take any great trading city abroad: with the same regularity as the flints below this, wit 
might be i by five years 3 Mr. take Frankfort, or Hamburgh, for instance, with an interval of about 6 inches of cha alle another layer of 
Srewarr has pees that it might be 10 years’ | both of which we have many relations. In the free nodules—and so on at various distances averaging a 
purchase, but of course the exact amount of the| state of Frankfort there is an excellent register | foot eg half throughout the whole extent of the gee. 
increase of alos must depend on all circumstances | foun led on a map, and the securities are almost- 5 sone — — _ _— ee. — i 5 
of the est we ively 
are—whether the price of land is affected in this] in that busy town ws comes from the east or 
country by the state of the law? and, if so, can that | the west which affects the er I am a resident in masses t 
law be altered? As to the former, as Mr. Srzwanr in Frankfort; I want money; I carry my bonds, d 
was the first, we believe, to call attention to the] my rentes, my stock to the banker’s : he tells me he nodules. z ty 
difference of the value of land and stock in the | does not at all like the look of things; 8 ue general | twenty-five per cent. of bone earth phosphate; to 
in this try and other countries, it is | credit of Europe is affected. He knows not what lower portion, in.which the nodules are mixed wi 
only fair to hear what he says on this point. may happen. The funds are at 70 to dy ; they | chalk, has from eight to ten. Between the place I yiee 
As to the question of value, there are one or | May at 60 to-morrow. He advances some mentioned and Enford, which is wears of it about fif- 
two remarkable circumstances in connection with money with reluctance, charges the full interest, 2 3 sections of the chal all, exs 
land, which meet us on the threshold in direct and protects himself very hrami as to the amount. cepting where t he lower Paes upper chalk — 
contrast with similar eircumstances, as we find them va’ if I have a house in agood street of the = peor Bs ese ER — s es, Kenna in prenter a 
in other countries. Let us contrast the comparative | t he simply put on his hat, walks to he a ee er 3 Be —. j- his dosie 
of land and stock in the funds in England ek registe office, demands to see the hook in ame results under the cumstances, so that 
Ia clined to hope that this deposit is not peculiar 
other countries. In England on this day (Feb. | which the Mete of my house is set out, Sees Be 3 to hope it prevails pa ole 
848), consols are at very nearly 90“.; that is to it unincumbered, and instantly gives me the money, | this particular geological level, which, I believe, is gen- 
s 30 years’ purchase. ou need not be told that | It is the affair of half-an-hour. He gives me, farther, — — is the middle chalk ; er, it is to 
the funds are to . fluctuation in price; on loan nearly the full estimated value of the ascertain this point, and to induce trials o i 
has been shown within the last twelvemonth house, and at the very lowest rate of interest that taral pere of these vestiges of bygone — which I 
to a remarkable extent. In a time p _ prs the state of the market allows. Thus, I am assured | have for more than two years in vain suggested in this 
e consols have been at 1007., or very by a highly respectable Lge ae that money is san cong od, that I now address you. These nodules 
near i t, and th have been at 80/.; and yet, in e I soe: lent on houses at Frankfort at 3} per are coated over with a genih substance, 2 hiss: od 
of this pon and unsteady m marke et, they are now | cent., and even —— ; > whee if we can get it at chemical character of which I have not 
at 30 years ase, and have been lately at 33 | all, it is be leas — es per cent. Take also —— — nto ag my Pade self it ot i contin a large 
d Now, is it not remarkable that Hamburgh — the same ready mode Freer. s 
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Pa does ‘hon ay other ap i value pny ed — ant esinhanitants of that city | distinctive mottled ä — 2 size they ae 
Sago and houses in its territory, mutually agree to insure 85 a Me hai, SA oe ahd Le pa 
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value — repayment of any loan "e ias any _ e OF | priate material for 8 ine roads, which in this way 
„and land up to a certain amount, ne-half, or as it are furnished annually with almost as much phosphate 
id de may be. Now, you begin * pe some Py the as is afforded to the adjoining lands by all the manure 
a : than? ears“ purchase, and practical advantages of a ready and easy mode of applied. Many a n unconscious tribute is, I coneeive, 
4 requently s | all these cir- | transferring land and houses. In th ountries | paid to the sahis of phosphoric acid in Praise 
countries in they are looked upon as I — already said, almost | bestowed on the fertilizing power of the road sweepings. 
three per cents. are in the light of : 8 at one's banker's, on 3 ee nearly 70 per cent. of carbonate of lime, 
ry is bette ba may draw or not, as we 115 ease. And why are they burn into a very tolerable ‘ime, vua disintegrates 
e P y are | NY nd thus, I 
for in London and all cities large and small of iis a sufficiently for all agricultural uses, an 
4 e of land in F. is far greater, jesi ity, depriv this great convenience, which | * Aaii age 8 ight be converted inia wl ood. 
although there is much more of it according to is enjoyed in 14 5 countries? They ar surely, nur a 3 pi kom e yea e but from the amount 
the amount of population, It is frequently 35 |right, and we are wrong. and houses should ef their carbonate it must be apparent 
s years pu ; etimes in s uan- | have more intrinsic and eertain value than stock and cannot be converted in mercantile 
tities ~ purchase, or even more. Take | funds. ve no wish to depreciate the value of | at the e present price of sulphuric acid. * 
en four and a half per cents. are at 91 L, these latter securities, but I certainly wish to raise Having said thus much of their chemical composition 
a sar of land is 40, and som metimes 45 years’ the value of the former, Give us facility of transfer, and possible agricultural value, I would fain add a few 
ing, give us moderate and certain charges, and we | from others who have taken an interest in subject, 
can have all the advantages enjoyed by the citizens | and whose attainments are in every way much greater 
of Frankfort or Hamburgh. than my own. Robert Clark, Ohemist dc., Devt 
I 0 vou will negin to see how much this question | 
of the ready transfer of land concerns us as com- DIGGINGS BY A FEN FARMER—NO Th 
— people. The powon H then that I come to 4 Diee : i 
other things, reed pounds laid out in almost all give us security of title, give us simplicity of deal- words respecting their origin, but that I 7 to differ 
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to the value of is in this count: 1225 Pe 
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from = defective practice of ; = ea aei „ in the low 
i kaii dly low. There is less of | which are called fens, and will refer 
5 t, compared. Wi tapas sie of this country,|dippings into the present and 
_ — of There is farming i 
any ot — 
and if th ek begebe it — in anyother country ; and strata there found, 
* Are ns 
| desirous of purchasing it. If the e ; 
it is in their power very aa the en to 8 the n lies waiting for rde 5 
value of their — * the same time benefit variety of materials ore and re 
am the whole community !’ may hope, worth 
ioe have tada this 1 long extrac because use, some for fu 
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= — presses the vale of land, s w se ä b 
that law be made, and we have conducted with r 
= — eas To hg — of the subject we experiments that we have tried 
eturn, because in the present juncture, | variety of digging-machine, to 
when Ws is a real wish on all sides to ‘el >| Our object is ips to give the 
land ted. the J 
some more more adventurous man, or some West- proeotery y Togari k a and re- | gations gaber Te _— — 
venti an, or some is matter in —— in 
Eas find the needful, leaving himself a subject in general, to the stn of the whol iain in in the w world vith which th hey ma may hes 
5 E 5 k ind of | C BANE IS i 1 > to furnish k, áá 15 
security, and charging me a gootl interest. So pee saes — and ede ae a ak 
louse. The general scene of our diggings i , 
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