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the mass of tbem, having lost their protector, soon rotted ; 

 — philosophers having- discovered that the cohesion of the 

 particles in animate and inanimate bodies depended on 

 different principles ; — in the former, on the principle of 

 life ; in the latter, on the chemical affinities : — hence all 

 organized matter, animal or vegetable, so soon as deprived 

 of life, having lost the vinculum by which they were held 

 together, dissolve, that is, putrefy, and their component 

 particles form new combinations according to their che- 

 mical affinities. 



The facility of making up florin hay through the winter 

 being established, and the principle upon which the success 

 of this strange measure depended, being ascertained, I 

 amused myself by exhibiting my powers, and made it a 

 point to mow on the side of a great road for some years 

 on the first Fridays in December and January, (being fair 

 days,) to the astonishment of the numerous passengers : 

 nor under these late operations did I ever see a handful 

 of hay spoiled. 



I now took great pains to ascertain the amount, and the 

 quality of florin hay crops; — that my own, for several years, 

 amounted to from six to eight tons dry hay, has been 

 proved upon oath repeatedly, before the noblemen and 

 most respectable magistrates of my country. Last season 

 the Earl of Charlemont, with the Bishops ofKiLDARE 

 and Down, were so good as to stand by to see some 

 perches of my florin mowed, and weighed ; and to certify 

 the amount of the damp green-sward to have run from 

 thirty- two to thirty-five tons, to the English acre. 



I consider my crops this year as very fine, yet every one 

 that has seen my friend Lord Northland's, assures 

 me it is superior to mine; and the Bishop of Derry 

 often has raised as fine crops; and the Bishop of Down 

 is now cultivating florin with equal success. 



