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of sodium, phospliates of lime and soda, sulphates of soda 
and potash, sulphate of magnesia, and carbonate of lime, 
which was originally a crenate of lime. 
One thousand grains of this soil yield to a boiling so- 
lution of carbonate of ammonia 3 1 grains of soluble matter, 
two-fifths of a grain of which consist of mineral salts, as 
above named. 
The insoluble carbonaceous matters amounted to 24 
grains to 1,000, or 2| per cent. 
92.040 
per cent. 
1.500 
0.280 
(( 
0.370 
u 
1.000 
(( 
0.500 
u 
Peroxide of iron and oxide man- 
1.500 
<; 
i( 
0.040 
0.009 
(( 
(( 
0.010 
Grenic, apocrenic, andhumic acids. 
0.360 
u 
Insoluble vegetable (carbonaceous) 
(( 
2.400 
trace. 
100.009 
Analysis of the Asli of Sea Island or Long-staple Cotton Jrom 
St. Simon's Island, as alove. 
The stalk of this plant, stripped of its leaves and bolls, 
when burned, yielded lOV grains of ashes. The leaves, 
buraed, yielded 107|^ grains of ashes; and the cotton fibre 
yielded, when burned, 13 grains to 1,000. One thousand 
