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Farmers’ Club. Mr. BAKER, 
poca paper d the m mo эе, meetin Bin breadth. There is TE testimony to prove] (о struggle for ен by а channel diverted four miles 
or 
the connection, throughout its many steps, bet 
the two, he pointed out the ordinary souar of the. century, 
diseases term 
indeed, excepting а 
only way in which the subject can, as yet, be, 
THE AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 
fis 
of the| mainland of Kent, was from 4 miles | maining est 
E BLIGATS AND bis : 
which, without pretending to detail that the direct route and accustomed passage to|round the 
pamm Mm and ы remedies, so far аз BEDE , however, it had begun to grow up; it was .| action of t! 
This was, o 
Norman Conquest, when the inhabitants perceiving | vegetable s 
| that the tie н ей without much vigour, began to action of the 
r suitable conditions, began to throw up ирон quantities of beach оп | when the 
i is 
ning remark Mr. Baxzn's paper, led, їп distinct — КОШЫ united by a causeway and the 
his hands, to А. practical discussion of the | to the Isle of Thanet. Thus, there may be many a In Tie courseof the rep ad centuries, 
ted 
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spheric causes—as influenced, if not in "heir force, The influences to which we. are adverting, while | Between 
in the scope given for their exe rcise, by. en great trouble in the maintenance of open r 
by cultivators т. ME cases in which, with all our skill, we fail to preserve | new havens i 
f food for plants: atmo- | an ancient channel against oceanic opponents. constructed a 
of Writtle, tm a very | and the arm of the sea, then separating і it from e grounds, mes drained by machinery; and { 
ү ihe. then but three furlongs wide iod 80 aba as to | from mu hrs wat ers ; by the growth of s Деу 
orase, fos | be fordable in two places. It continued а passable | the external covering of sand from the Cor 
w eneral ie cases, is the strait for vessels то longer than the time of the | Ње winds; he Se by VES rise and..deea 
the middle of the 16th and 17th cent 
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пату waters (now named. Lake T, Lothing) 
mated. ар ала оп E 
ween | ondon by sea, so late as ihe гҮ of the fourth | Yarmouth is айла: This ground. was formed 4 
lay through this — Es the time of | the I = heavy materials, dio: e ttes 
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by the “deposit of. oozy, 
^r 
ubstanc Ha t not been Pee HN 
tidal wed eu which by their. stre 
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pends. simply u see havin е the Isle to Kent, the sea, unable to find a passage would have entirely debarred the river water of 
food in the jon pu xs the right kind, through the strait which it had кау filled ар, all means of egress. From the 
red it unde t 
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the the eastern pesi producing ee originally a ласун gi has been a ees struggle pennas. 
cean for th ze of navigation‘ and 
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p different situations weres successively ^ 
t average intervals of about 30 уема, | 
erows— m a defence: for the t sia n effort o те 0. 
influences which, by - eme edat s) the. soil, wef in the case of littoral sand-hills instead of beach, | Stretch the barrier, already several miles long come ~ 
bring to bear upon the plan se of mineral the engineering difficulties of preserving а river pletely across the estuary ; and this is counteracted 
as marl and chalk and ньо applica- | channel through an эйаму landed up into а | а1опе by artificial. means—by the I irae of the. 
manur р 
tion of farm manure to green crops instead of g rain ]ow marsh, and issuing it through а sea-made wall back-water, a e 
n "A à proper rotation ot roris all | of driven sand which has occasioned the growing of timber in fencing the one 
adoptio 
received attentio that marsb, are very great айма ; and the sand | years, the ba 
It is to these pesti n methods of i р vegetable AN uà io Fs combatted in a way different to that. having cost i 
health, after all, that farmers direct their attention brought into play — the shingle ec but | @ kalf of money t 
with the greatest reason to expect success We often with little better success. Let us "look | and. preserv 
confess to greater hopefulness on ко ground of good at the shores of Norfolk and Suffol hile | of the rivers. 
k. W e gge th 
drainage and good tillage, and good management as cliffs with their crown of villages haye been tides is now such that the water, af “tide, is 
arrier has «ашу Юк: 23 s 
{о the timing and succession of our crops, Бай to! un d t away-—-several manors | from. one е three feet — on the 
e absence o: fr 
м. X 
Mad. d —€ 
dermined an 
-— eny  Dushes, for exemption from havin ng "són swallowed up piece by piece, and the sea si 
p 
ed of the German Ocean—considerable lengths | The water, 
of Yarmouth, though only үт 
Dew will the e таару. speakers last their sites, some fathoms deep, now w fo orming ait of by the ыш bank which 18. s not e queres 
however, is 
the b ery pur 
rui we Ver сапве of mildew. | of. the coast are defended by hills of sand, 50 or 60 difficulty of seimenieiy. deposition i is not sida 
lie, vhi w муе те 
Yare and jte sister wem тезеп 
d хайд: rather Шап free rivers; anda 
eir low- 
— а бы under th he oth 1 
i ес ег the] feet high, blown up by the winds and bound ^ e other accumulations, as in 
control of so beyond his | together by the Arundo arenaria and similar plants. |16 is, the 
smut ra ed to as| A rampart of heavy materials is first thrown up to Eb 
preventible. ES: the ant fro unusual altitùde by some extraordinary tide, | ost expensive artificial drainage of their low-Jand 
Toe, PE ^ ormen z attended with, a violent gale ; subsequent tides тры is th d nece in ad | 
e plant, in ce uc d éhedh dh 
by хосыг Iaxuriance of grow р мма jo праф. "n зас назорра = ае 
уз in чёт а. al 
of the plant, ascending "with the sap, wt ultimately 
o 
ping 
ventible by the s simple expedient of ey wash- 
a e$ ete € 
Outras o ^ е vef t ie ге caused t om sea inlet to 
of the Isle Thanet. на dris | e an iey valley ers, now subj 
; VU Rees enim m taomiy a i а Might inox af tho thn I 16 le d 
ry early sta (уулы жзне nts by degrees obtain a footing ; creep along Ше shore. Z. 
| ridge, give ed — mass, and in some places 
y are accordingly pre- | cause ted covering of turf: meanwhile, AGR 
| another mo vm is Syris Recens and by the 
275. 
seed, e. process of like pocess. risea..ond a-nrotectiom texthe fireb, | 22 ПИА sapin. other topics. arising. out of the 4 
“pickling,” liy which Ao e at nd toit may be | while, the PARS ipm bé thosa — spoliati of t tory theory, which 1 P 
дениў cine ace. adc х ei: embankments become pasturage : the marine | {09 lad to bring before your темн, t hega 
encroaene 
trans ferred. it to 
south-west: | + 
? | are er in 
ith rag the | wher 
; , second 
eçting the Potato and river, it flows to sea in a line nearly patajel |*Pl 
ciency EN. а, pe. with the coast, А few miles south of Lowesto Mavin 
ft, 
ө, and it was| one of those natural barri 
иш ei probability o ч across an ancien t pes af i чейи cen stretched 
z 
Spes of a and tunnel the resi 
shingle bank. 3 cbe ба Pres 
À more im t ease is that of Ya 
ven. The area of drainage delivering at this between ass 
l| po rivers Yare, Wav ey, and: 
large part of Norfolk, with.a portion of S 
зе Ке Нау n 10 diferent valleys, € lagu p. 
pé 7 Mh Yu арза, about 150 | into 
s—all w 
: on Lof this important matter of fact | more 
ibjeet, om must теше nues | 
; un - M: the € p” Ya x Se Pe b 
ver кетине шай бышыш is Л олче Зр wih | өе ы в 
it of the 
sphere covering an area of 20 o or 
stade жеме to the direction objecti 
1 | — 
velot Ma ч utting out the tides from a low valley, T i» the hope that som me of the kind friends, stion : | 
rainage water of this valley is s discharged by |may aid me in elucidating t 
d P of the earth 
joint by the | 
| amounts to грез 1500 square miles--itelüding e ^ established, praes eral i is found only in seas of t 
sh a 
ich originally | of Sir Charles Lyeli's Chapte 
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eti deir origin to the recurrence of the sorm, Wai E 
Sir William [90 * 
I lusion, T ha wet 
n conclusion, je nemen, v ч rs d they be 
the ial xe 
1 te p lighter substa of maintaining heavy mounds agai pee en | 
у &e. ; the latter are | its summit, while sand ів blown from the beach and | Sea, at points where the natural "barrier of ^deneg" 1 
фес from € their germs | | fills the interstices. The Arundo and other marine | 01 sand — present intermitting gaps.along : 
ICULTURXAELE METEOROLOGY. 
Concluded v рада 
рто основ n to a 
endeavoured to state 
armouth |. Itw ae be interesting also, i trace kd 
pan | 
—ÀÀ 
perature in 
which is the chalk formation, of a 
the pa of detail | 
nd inadmissible d n: =» in 
se 
нчен of the great deep, 
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