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ECONOMICAL GEOLOGY. 



TABLE I. 



1. Taken fi'om a back field of Dr. Wales', at Tuckahoe. 



2. From a field of Stephen Young, near the Toll-bridge, 

 over Cedar Swamp Creek.* 



3. From a field of John Stites, Sen., Beesley's Point. 



4. From a field of Joshua Swain, Townsend's Inlet. 



5. From Richard D. Edmunds' field. Cold Spring. 



6. From the farm of James L. Smith, Stipson's Island. 



7. A gravelly loam, from the farm of Peter Corson, 

 Petersburg. 



For the purpose of comparison, analyses of difierent 

 varieties of fertile soils are copied from agricultural works, 

 and inserted here : — 



* This soil is a sandy loam, known in Cape May as a hlacJi sand. The field of one and 

 a half acres was manured, in 1854, with twenty loads of barn-yard manure, and three 

 hundred pounds of guano; and fifty bushels of wheat were harvested from it in 1865. 



