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Arthur Young. 
neighbour, and by his special instructions that the opportunity 
was not lost of preserving under the protection of the church 
an authentic register of the discovery of the virtue of marl as a 
top-dressing. Does not the rhyming proverb still run — 
“ Clay upon sand maketh good land, 
Sand upon clay throws your money away.' - ’ 
The genius of Agriculture did not die out of the family in 
the person of Arthur Young, but passed on to his only son, who 
died in 1827, in the 57th year of his age, at Kaffa, in the Crimea., 
“near to which” — so the monumental inscription runs — “at 
a village called Karagos, he possessed an estate of ten thousand 
acres, purchased by him in the year 1810, after drawing up 
a statistical and agricultural survey of the Government of 
Moscow, by the appointment of Alexander, Emperor of Russia, 
in 1805.” 
There was among other children a favourite daughter, whose 
death is thus recorded on a tablet in the vesti’y of the church : — 
“ To the memory of Martha Anne Young, youngest daughter 
of Arthur Young. Born May G, 1783; died July 13, 1797. 
‘ Pray, for me, Papa, Amen ! ’ ller last words.” 
From this date Arthur Young turned his thoughts to 
religious subjects and to the question of the condition of the 
soul in a future state of existence, entering into a correspondence 
with some of the most eminent divines. The publication of 
Wilberforce’s Practical Christianity , concurrently with the death 
of his daughter, seemed, Dr. Paris says, “ to settle his conflicting 
opinions, and established in his mind a true reliance upon 
Divine mercy, which cheered him in his latter days of darkness 
and infirmity.” William Wilberforce as an acquaintance seems 
to have had considerable influence with Arthur Young. There 
is still in existence a certain snuffbox of his, from which the 
diamonds that once adorned it were, it is said, plucked out and 
passed as a tribute to the fund raised by his friend for the 
suppression of slavery. They were replaced by a gilt beading 
or moulding. This snuffbox was sent by Count Rostopchin, 
Governor of Moscow, to Arthur Young with a letter dated 
Woronovo, June 18th, 1804; and how it reached him will be 
seen from the following extract from his diary : — 
“ October 17, 1804, Bradfield. — Mr. Imirenove came last 
night to dinner, with Count Rostopchin’s snuffbox. It is turned 
in his own oak, lined witb gold, and has a tablet containing the 
representation of a building dedicated to me ; the inscription, 
in Russian, ‘ A pupil to his master,’ set round with sixty-six 
diamonds. Query? Should not such toys be turned into money 
