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' ON THE 



FERTILISING PRINCIPLE 



OF THE 



INUNDATIONS OF THE HUGLL 



By H. PIDDINGTON, Esq. 



It is a generally received opinion, that the fertilising principle of the 

 inundations of the great tropical rivers, is vegetable matter in various 

 stages of decomposition ; in as far as relates to the Uiigli, this is not 

 the fact ; as the following details, abridged from a paper presented to the 

 Agricultural Society, will show. In a country, where European skill 

 must shortly be far more extensively employed in developing its resources, 

 than it has hitherto been, nothing which relates to the soil can be in- 

 different, or foreign to the views of the Physical Committee. 



" It is well known, that while the tracts within reach of the inunda- 

 tion, preserve their original fertility, the higher soils are gradually and 

 rapidly impoverishing, and this to a degree of which few, who have not 

 made the subject one of attention, are aware ; there are some crops 

 which cannot be repeated, unless at intervals of three or four years ; while 

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