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height of hills or ridges, depth of beds, &c. 3. Its chemical 
composition. 4. The plants which seem to thrive best upon 
it. 5. The manures which have been found most applicable, 
suggesting, if possible, others which, from their chemical 
properties, seem likely to supply deficiencies in the soil. 6. 
Insects and diseases which are found most destructive to the 
crops, with the remedies, where known. 
Since the issuing of the sub-committee's first report, the 
lectures of Professors Daubeny and Johnston, and translations 
of the works of Liebig, Sprengel, Schoebler, and De Can- 
doUe, have appeared ; and there is now being made, not only in 
England, and in Scotland by the Highland Society, but on the 
Continent of Europe, a general attempt to ascertain the first 
principles of agriculture by the aid of science, or to explain 
its phenomena by the known laws of matter, as exhibited in 
the sciences of geology, chemistry, and vegetable physiology ; 
and in furtherance of these objects, the sub-committee present 
the following Report upon a tract of country contiguous to 
the important town (Hull) in which the Agricultural Society 
have the honour to meet. 
The district over which the Report is made extends from 
Pocklington on the north, by Market Weighton to the river 
Humber on the south ; and from Beverley on the east to 
North Cave on the west. It comprehends part of the ex- 
tensive district of the Wolds, and that in the neighbourhood 
of Brantingham, North and South Cave, &c., as marked 
upon the map, which is enlarged from that by the Rev. W. 
Harcourt, in the Annals of Philos. vol. XI, page 435. 
The Committee purpose, therefore, — 
1. To examine the soils in connection with their geology 
over each of the beds subordinate to the Chalk and 
to the Oolitic series; to produce to the Society 
vertical sections of their thickness, &c. &c., and to 
project them upon a map of six inches to the mile. 
