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healthinefs of the climate. All that feems to be wanting therefore is 

 furface draining upon a general plan, and the cutting of broad ftraight 

 roads through the woods, as much as poffible in the direction of the 

 prevailing winds. The acknowledged improvement of the climate in 

 . and about Cmculta, of late years, appears to be the natural refult of. the 

 fuperior attent.ou which has been paid by the local police to thefe two 

 objects, the benefits of wh.ch will be extended with the extended ap- 

 plication of the fame means The culture of rice could only be parti- 

 ally, if it all, afleded by it, and the neighbourhood of towns and po- 

 pulous villages would be much improved by fubftituting the fuperior 

 and more wholefome cultivation of potatoes, which feem to be fp ring- 

 ing into general ufe every where with the increasing population of the 

 world* 



6 3. On the deepening of the great tank at the beginning of the Chow* 

 ringhee road in the laft year, there was found a quantity of decayed wood 

 at the depth of 35 feet below the furface, which was imagined at the time 

 to be an accidental circum lance, of which no fatisfa6lory account could 

 be obtained : but the borer, in this experiment, having perforated 

 rotten wood in a (tratum of blue clay from the depth of 33 to 52 feet* 

 at the diftance of half a mile from the former fpot, gives reafon to 

 fuppofe that the remains of an ancient foreft forms a fubftratum of a 

 more general extent at this depth, and fupports the theory, which has 

 hcen drawn from the like difcoveries in different parts of the world, that 

 fome great Convulfion of nature, probably the deluge, proflrated and 

 covered the ancient forefis. 



4. The finding of this layer of rotten wood between layers of 

 coal, feems to fupport the fuppofition, that coal is a formation from 

 wood, probably gradual 5 the middle paits being the laft transformed' 



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