218 Beet Sugar and Cane Sugar. 
SCOTLAND. 
1676. In the Orkneys. 
1802. October. In Scotland. 
1804. April 4. High Possil, near Glasgow. 
1830. May 17. Perth. 
IRELAND. 
1779. Pettiswood, Co. Westmeath. 
18io. August. Mooresfoot, Co. Tipperary 
£o13., september 10.1 Adare, Co, Limerick. 
1844. April 29. Killeter, near Casthe Denes 
Tyrone. 
In addition to these, two meteoric stones have been found 
inv scotland, viz.: 
Found, 1820—30. Leadhills; Lanarkshire. 
a 1861 Newstead, Roxburghshire. 
Popular Science Review. 
BEET SUGAR AND CANE SUGAR 
HE astonishing progress made in late years by beet- 
root sugar is beginning to excite the greatest appre- 
hension in the sugar-growing colonies. Itis of the greatest 
interest to consider the different points that are likely to 
cause the preponderance of the cane or of the beet. In 
the first place, the sugar-cane is a denizen of the tropics, 
where the condition of the weather at any given time can 
be counted upon with certainty. The beet, on the other 
hand, grows in the temperate zone, where, although the 
inhabitants neither suffer from excessive heat nor excessive 
cold, the weather is “almost always unsettled and more or 
less uncertain. The beet, which is affected by too much 
rain or by too little, by unseasonable heat, by unexpected 
cold, or by too little or too much sunlight, is particularly 
uncertain in its growth, and the remarkable fluctuations in 
the crops during the last’ few years sufficiently establish 
this point. In 1859-60 the beet crop amounted to 438,000 
tons; in 1860-61 it amounted to only 366,826 tons; in 
1861-62 it again rose to 404,411 tons; and in 1862-63 to 
450,000 tons. The season 1863-64 was a bad one, and the 
return sank to 385,741 tons, from which it again rose in 
1864-65 to 475,000 tons. This season it will probably 
