a A) LES Ne st PEP ne haere Cyr 
GYPSU™M. 
the leaft peice “se d over the other lands, 
eS tel no drefling 
In Norfolk. anaing ‘to the Survey ‘of that diftrié, 
i publifhed, “ Mr. Allen tried this manure, very care- 
pntd at Stanhow, on clean clover. 
March nina ge 1 and 4. No manure; produce average 
oft the tw b. 602. 
#3. Four sa fifted coal-afhes kept dry, solb. 
ypium, one quart, 545 lb. 
tae afhes, 2 ie age es an increafe of dg 1002. 
in proucing crops. 
w 
America, a late writer has found this fubftance to be 
made 
at a ag the land was of the drier kind, and 1 
not “to have been of any utility, ex- . 
ae os the fmallnefs of the Pap yin toe em- 
g the tal wf ta ‘ee and the preventing of 
nt from the darker appearance o 
the ground, ig was ag thefe ways, and that of defending 
the young ts feore orching at of the fun, that it 
became fo beneficial to seunice in his “¢ It covers the 
the ground n 
moift and cool all the fummer. ? the WH, 
when, in Ara 
the crop to be of am 
-eight, fo much fo, as to Site 
of the foil being there of a fuperior , 
fowed another buthel of it on two rows, and 
grrEg 
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B 
£ 
Me 
4 
bs 
E 
g 
BE 
irl 
. 
} zi B. a 
Hue 
an, oes would anfwer fo often, or fo well, 
sauerricas but ng of grea’ 
eal tutaife in hot hts feafons. This oe 
hove » hot yet been proved by aétual trials made in this 
Eoaline, In this county from Pg to eight *buthels have 
per acre. ‘The fuccefs has, however, ees 
ees dar eee times bee. publithed: con- 
‘Gxbsau, 
ot ae falphate of lime ; 
‘ 5 | 
f white colour, wit 
Taft buthe! ° 
gigi kind. And, on the whole, he is not o 198 
ftadt circle of 
Fre Ks fupote two bul wl fice fr an sere in dil i land 
in Ger- it 
totem the Gk ete ng 
minced will ever differ Ticning ; 
brea gre but fortunately — ; 
mineral fubftances is uot materially in- 
fluenced by this difa Rove We fhall confider the above 
ye feparat 
Earthy gypfum, sybfeow earth, mealy, farinaceous gypfums 
Engl. Gyps-erde, -mehl, gy gills rato ie. 
Germ. Gyps-lera, er site Swed. Gornaja gips, or 
gipfowaya muka, Ruff. 
owing to admixed iron-ochre 
It is compofed of loofe, and lightly cohering duftlike 
particles, and like — — and meagre to the touch. 
It is aa —Spec. 
the chem al bara ers of the earthy gypfum, is 
colour ; tip 
i When not perfeétly faturated with fulphurie 
ces with nitric acid, and is diffolved im it. 
It occurs in Thuringia ; in Saxony, in the circle of Neu- 
ftadt, between Krélpa, Zella, Oepitz, and near Franken- 
haufen ; at Saltzburg, particularly at the Gypfberg, near 
Golling ; in Bohemia, in Tranfylvania, in Norway. Ac- 
cording to Brochant it has alfo been — at Mont-Martre, 
rag de ris. This is, rai we the 
chai fulfatée niviforme : ni es fed oF clofe grains 
» an iu maffes 
pearing like bah ser dt and aly reducible into a foft pow- 
der ; it is generally mixed with carbonate of lime. In 
Ruffia it is found in the grottos of alabafter on the banks of 
ga, and the other rivers that unite with it. 
Of its geognoftic jituation little is to be faid a pe nd as a 
rare mineral {ub{tance in the hollows of bf wee 
where it is probably “east under fi indians as 
untain-milk is in lime-ftone rocks : it frequently originates 
by a folution of gypfum in water, w! 
countries, it is found more co ioufl 
water. 
At Stemnit tz, according to Shlotheim’s obfervations, is 
occurs in earthy bituminous wood. 
The ue to erates Bs applied, oy Neu- 
Sosiy 
= 
as an admixture to po in ae 
a “probably as defirattive mics 
