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The entire mass of debris now found within, embraces but a com- 
paratively small portion of the material, required to restore the 
rock to its original solidity and form. 
The thermometer, at its farther extremity, stood at forty-two 
degrees of Fahrenheit in the midst of July. 
AGRICULTURAL ADDRESS. 
BY REV. H. BANNISTER. 
[Delivered before the Madison County Agricultural Society in 1847.] 
There are two things which possess a natural adaptation to a 
life of husbandry. They are morality and knowledge. In proof 
of the first of these, nothing more need be said than that He who 
appointed tillage of the soil as the first ordinance of labor to man, 
certainly never would have done so, if the tendencies of that em- 
ployment were not to exalt and purify the affections, and to pro- 
mote habits of learned and sober industry, and sterling integrity. 
So pure and true and bland, is the spirit which nature breathes, 
that the agriculturist, who is in daily communion with it, meets 
with a rebuke from every sward he turns, from every tree he 
prunes, from every stalk he reaps, whenever he is tempted to a 
sordid rapacity, or a dishonest life, or tampers in the least with 
any thing that is vicious, or mean, or unworthy. There are in- 
stances, it is true, of vicious wealth, and of honest poverty; but 
these constitute the exception, not the rule. 
If it was necessary, much more might be said on this subject, 
but I waive further remark upon this, that I may enter more at 
large upon the other proposition with which I commenced, which 
is, that the life and business of the farmer is w^ell fitted to develope 
to a considerable extent, his intellectual as well as moral powers, 
and is such at the present time, as to be in ever increasing demand 
for knowledge. 
An important reason for supposing the business of agriculture 
favorable to growing intelligence, is quite the same with that 
