HE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 



JMarch 17 



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Trra-urv. It had been in;.- 

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should be brought under the new I 

 ent act. Bv an unforeseen communica 

 Treasury" the advance of 34,000/., 



agricultural operatic 



• pedient and even impracti 



■ minimi, an : 



merit on 11 different 

 i 850 to -J.} acres of 



fand" the ^ropThave^fufly 



Hnches deep; and he finds spade 

 omical and productive under the 

 f his soil, and the redundancy of his 

 , is introducing it even in those 



izt' e z t0 J: 



powers, and that the farmer will yet find his profit in 

 ' ■ * rcased knowledge of simple mechanical con- 

 es for working the soil. The costs of the 

 operations, both in permanent improvement and 



amised advances from the Government offices, 



in order to keep faith with the bankers who had 



supplied him with large sums of money; and besides 



agitating and abstracting employment of his 



he had iiin't* iMnir cares, in his capacity of 



marked ; they hold up their heads like men, in day 

 when the habit of depending upon gratuitous ah 



and a debased look and demeanour to so many c 

 the Irish people. Mr. Hamilton has found ou 

 that it is cheaper to keep people, old or young, ou 

 hi pauperis,,, than to support them in it, and h 



had not been for the'poor-Ws. 



The benevolent and judicious plans pursued by 

 Lord George Hill and Mr. Hamilton are prac 



we find in a pamphlet of Martin Dokle "on tht 

 UI.ourii.sr Classes in Ireland.-' " While I fully admi 

 ■ ndlords in multiplied instances have stronj 

 ounug to free themselves fron 

 jss and improvident tenants, and many tempta 



ue or malm-rock banas, 20 to ^feellhiSi 

 beneath these again other beds of bright green iSff 

 rhich one portion is argillaceous : this lower if 

 and is the gault. The concretions of phosphate onS 

 re not so uniformly spread through the thickne«rf 

 tiis mass as in the upper green sand, but occur htl 

 tarns, one in the argillaceous portion, the other low? 

 nd only a little within the limits of this division of & 

 series. These two beds of phosphate nodules, as wrtj 

 im of pyrites, which in open sections prodncw, 

 band in the gault deposit, are remarkably p. 



follows that the discovery of phosphate beds will 

 >-ariably_ reward those who may explore for them 



mislead, m tKrel 

 of the course of the 

 Research is already very strongly recommended ra 

 quarters, but this will often be attended irifc 



ative positions of the various strata along this ra 

 1 published sections too are equally delusive. 

 « When seen from some distance within the Wea 



will be found that whilst the dip o 



o^ixTwre 



nt to get such waste land 



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mode of emplo 



tie extraordinary that the peasantry 

 yment coveted in other part? of Ire 





-uork.pla 



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They 



any given 



n- • • Mr. 



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nt parts of the serie 



s are bro 



ghtuptotnecHB 



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series exhibited in any 





will depend on th 





f inclination, bes* 







ost rapid. 



But in addition to 



Flos , 













along th 







ment ; the lower gr 





>eds, which occupy 



:h- s. 



ith side of the gau 



t, also un 





; correspond ; 



The reverse indeed is very frequently the case, tin 

 greatest amount of disturbance on one side facing I 

 small amount on the other, and thus it happens Mm 

 some places the beds of upper green sand and gault m 



so that if laid down on a map they would be reprinted 

 only at intervals along the base of the escarpment, ai 

 north of Gomshall, beneath Newland's Corner, Mr 

 Guildford, at Puttenham and Seale ; but it would woof 

 a map on a very much larger scale than that of w 

 Ordnance to enable one to lay down these minute ml 

 " All these several places'present old pits from wKA 

 the marly green earth has been taken in former WW, 

 doubtless for the purpose of amending the land;j« 



pits are often occupied by large timber trees. 

 "After having ascertained the positions of the se«n- 



remember that he bought with full i 



We shall close our lengthy Ten 

 expression of our hope that everv i 

 from the State will be given to th 



vhich we l 



Regent's-park, a flock of Tj 



" mountain district of Ladak, 

 J been imported - 

 ,ms nne-woolled v„ 



ind and Wale.s. Mnoi;,w T 

 a first noticed these sheep, gives also a favour- 



IIS? ilesh - What " 



but by perseverance he contrived to keep from 400 ! " ma ? be the result of the pr- 

 anally at work for above two [iiestion cannot h 



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gained more than ti 



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Je manufacture, which he afterward, declined 



PHOSPHATE OF LIME IN THE CHALK 



% executed -ieal Society of 



B in the Cretaceous Series < 

 ' T * e." By R. A. 



Mr. Paine's papa 



in the neighbourhood of _Farntw 



ire not so instructive, owing to ■ 



strata and the great accumulate 



:layey gravel \ 



011 fcr.Ffti ^ 





1 Which iBgW 

 hewh0le ,Si 



of the middle group of beds from Fan** 

 afield there is a series of undulations of »J* 

 i shift round from N. and S. to E. and W,p 

 ing ridges having gentle opposite dips. ^ 



Trie component beds of the cretaceous series^ 

 nity of Farnham differ only in one instance 



series exhibited near Guildford, and which 1 » 



. Farnbam to Crondall. 



; great quarrj '» 

 Dr.Fitton^ 



is friable, passing occasionally into ^^Sl 

 these sandstones%est on the gault, which M^ 

 lower part of the valley forms the subsoil ot "Jj^ 

 Hop-ground west of Farnham; and P| y b y a W*' 

 bright 11 greeHand. This mass of ^*TjS# 

 equivalent of the fire-stone to tia "JJJ^JJ J> 

 absence of lime, and represents merely tJ^J^Stf 

 current, which at that particular Vf ***** * 

 gault and upper greensand, drifted are" ' j,# 

 rather coarse materials along this P^fJ^ 

 cretaceous ocean ; the course of this egj^ 

 have been somewhat north and south, ri ™ 



by Mr. Pain! 

 he has procure 

 ' " 5 quarry ti 



subordinate line of nodules of ph»P^ n saird tog 

 J valley, the same stratum of upper gree" JIr ,M 

 capping the whole of the ridge, over w« 



