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is lessened by the use of coal and peat, there can be no doubt it will 
be extensively used as a manure. 
The amount of lime burned in the county this season is as follows: 
Goshen, 10,650 bushels 
Hamptonburghj 1,400 
Minisink, 1,400 
Warwick, 4,200 
Newburgh, 165,000 
Total, .... .... 182,650 
This at an average price of 25 cents per bushel, yields the sum of 
$45,662,50, as the product of this branch of our industry, per annum. 
WATER. 
Orange is abundantly supplied with springs and streams; on one side 
is the Hudson, on the other, the Delaware. The Neversink river and 
Basher's kill enter this county from Sullivan^ and empty into the De- 
laware. On these there is considerable fall. Part of the summit level 
of the Delaware and Hudson canal is in the county; the last mentioned 
streams are used as feeders. 
Three or four miles from the New- Jersey line, at the eastern base of 
the Shawangunk mountain, rises the Shawangunk kill. It pursues a 
northeasterly course at the foot of this mountain, to near Bloomingburgh; 
thence it separates Sullivan and Ulster counties from Orange, and finally 
falls into the Walkill, in Ulster. 
The Walkill enters the county from New- Jersey, and pursues a very 
serpentine course without any fall, through the drowned lands, to the 
outlet. From this point to Ulster county, northeast of Walden, there 
are occasional falls and sites for water power. 
The great marsh, or as it is called, the drowned land, covers an ex- 
tent of 17,000 acres in this county, and 3,500 in New-Jersey. At 
high Avater, this surface is covered, and again laid bare by drainage and 
evaporation. Many parts of the shore have been annually visited by 
fevers; since the partial draining has been effected, these have measura- 
bly disappeared. This tract appears once to have been a lake, and has 
been gradually filled to its present level by vegetable matter. It is now 
a vast body of peat of different qualities. Much of it is very good, co- 
vered only with undecomposed vegetable matter. In some places, the 
