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     uctiveness in the kinds of grain. It is believed to 
     
     e imposstble to grow wheat from a soil that contains 
     
     0 phosphate of lime. But this phosphate is readily 
     
     upplied from the shrlls so numerous in the bays, 
     
     ivers and creeks, and the bones and offal of fish. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     F SOILS FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE ISLAND 
     
     SUBMITTED TO CAREFUL EXAMINATION. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The roots, sticks, pebbles. coarse- sand and other 
     
     odies- supposed to be nearly inert, were removed- 
     
     mm the soils, only the fine materials of which were 
     
     nalysed. 
     
    
   
   
    
     No. l was from a field of medium fertility at Ber 
     
     eque, bearing a moderate Crop of potatoes, which 
     
     ad been smitten by the prevailing blight. It con, 
     
     ained of 100 grains— ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     Water 3 0‘ 
     
     Matter expelled by heat, chiefly \egetable,lL 5 
     
     Carbonate oflime, - - - l 5 
     
     Phosphate of lime, - - - l 0 
     
     Peroxide of' iron, - - - 2 5 
     
     Silicia, or fine silicious sand, - — 74 0 
     
     Allumina, - - - - 6 0 
     
     Carb. Magnesia, - - - O 5 
     
     Oxide ofmanganese, a trace, - O 0 
     
     100 O 
     
     No. 2 was taken from a field that produces fair 
     
     rops of wheat, clover, and potatoes—- 
     
     Water, - — — - 4 0 
     
     Vegetable matter, - - 1‘2. 5 
     
     Carbonate of‘ lime, - — - 2 O 
     
     Phosphate of lime, - - 1 5 
     
     Oxide of'irun, - - - 2 0 
     
     Silica - - — - 66 5 
     
     Alumina, — - - - 10 0 
     
     Carbonate “Magnesia, - _, 0 5 
     
     Oxide ofmanuanese, — - - l 0 
     
     Potash, a trace, Soda, do. do. 
     
    
   
   
    
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