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should have ever obtained with agriculturalist' to y.
of
extent that this did, for it was opposed to the voic,tht
all experience ; the injurious effects of salt up o
on P
as
soil had even psed into a proverb both in the
io,
and West, and to raze a man's house, and s°wrsall:
salt the ground on which it had stood, was "ice ido
accepted for a symbol of extreme desolation.
Scripture, too, we read that, when Abinielech te°
heltreif
city of Shechem, T " slew the people that were te
and sowed it with salt." (Judges, ix. 45.) h in, I
possible use of salt to the ground is in its destrOaniiit
host of vermin, such as slugs, snails, grubs, Szc'', tbat
was probably this fact, not rightly understooa,
first gave occasion to the fallacy. would
It was to be expected that an error of this kin
erifit
soon be detected by its results ; but the inquiringlito
of one man has gone a step, and a most import" to
beyond, and found out that, however deleterlooo,
land the muriate of soda might be in its conlrn°n
it yielded a valuable and economic manure iche° h
wilte
composed. The importance of this discover}, ,if we
we owe to Mr. Kemp, will easily be estimate.;
soy
reflect that salt is more universally distributed I'd' fossil
other natural product, both in its marine an 00
state, and that from this circumstance, as i as.
0 SY
its requiring to be used in small quantities only' Ifother
be brought to supersede the use of bones, and° folt,
more expensive manures. The decompositien e
red
either by the agency of sulphuric acid, or of %lists,
oxyde of lead, has long been known to the ei"teres;
and practically applied to some of our nianufacstlytv
but either of these modes would be far too c°,isle
allow of their being employed in the more ,-
occupations of agriculture. In obviating this as it
so that decomposed salt may be applied largeliet
must be to fertilize the earth, consists the sect Ile
See
Mr. Kemp. If we may believe him, and we heck
reason to doubt his word, he has found a means scwicl'
the muriate of soda may be decomposed withe'' oot
enhancing the cost of the material. But we cBOO
do better than give the history of the discovery
own words:--
" I have taken great pleasure in making e°- The;d"
trials of the efficacy and value of different manures' To pcf.oe'
title of barilla having been employed with this view: rtir;
very decisive proof, that it possessed the recta'''-eation',o
ties in a high degree, it was inferred that its lerAt
consequent on the soda which this substance steuity
largely to possess. Now, this circumstance first sobi'die ty
idea of the decomposition of salt, because, if the Id 11tre
rilla could act beneficially on vegetation, why shjit aPPeltc'
soda, so abundant in salt, be equally efficacious ? e t
probable, therefore, if the union between its constiolsvecur'r,
ciples could be destroyed, or a perfect decornpositivollcido,
and while the soda was thus at liberty, a new re? ie
formed with the chlorine, which should 'de rive `tared,° 11:1
rious qualities as a free acid, that salt, thusP prePh
yield facilities, from its cheapness, for increasing t-ne
tiveness of the earth beyond anything hitherto knt'vell
" It is scarcely necessary that I should enter inA-olt
nute details of the effects produced by prePar, e•-• -
every description of crop. Nearly all the varictie' t'o
known as agricultural, have been submitted trite
fully de
without any exception that I am aware of, havel'eu- t'oot
strated its great stimulating powers. Corn,' pulsed
grass, have all attested, by their great luxuriance att-olidtii
produce, the force and energy of this manure. Tbe 150)1
varieties of the culinary and flower garden haTe,t3tboy
witness to the general efficacy of prepared salt ; ton I
am aware that the superior culture usually besw•es.
departments hinders them from offering so unequih; 5
as fields that are worn and exhausted by corn, ye the
health and vigour of everything to which it was ding
gardens, afforded the strongest evidence for cone-get
its agency may be as universal as dung, or any other
r!
sistant of vegetation." t t
It will hardly be requisite for us to el'e.oo
1.
largely into the merits of this excellenrt
Enough, we hope, has been done to show t"iso'o''
holds out profitable lessons to the farmer, it 3 atoll' 4;
in no slight degree, both amusement and instru
which every class of readers may be glad to
themselves.

TAIT'S EDINBURGH MAGA Xll,OO
Tait, Edinburgh; Simphin and Marshall, '"° ore
Tait is excellent this month. But wnYre
numbers not regularly forwarded to us ? the
must be some 'nista' e in this matter.
previous months this most able of Radical Pe
has not been laid on our table. adt
The present number opens with an exce141:1;t:o0!;

•
..ts
the present moment, a most interesting attic-therll
life, writings, and genius of Coleridge, from
the English Opium Eater. 'We read it e3re
our only regret at the conclusion was its breve
biography of the departed poet and philosoPh
slyi.
not be undertaken by an abler •hand nor
spirit. " Tytler's History of Scotland' -s
bielj
minating review of the merits oft hat very valtl3 ,fah;
tion. The " Beggars Wallet, No. XI." iSCer)
a t°
being a beggarly production. The story j 5
dee P
sketch, and the moral is worthy of being icerse'lll
sured in the heart. Throughout the tille.je le,J;
question if there be so touchily, a sPect3ol°Ji°
workings of a contrite, but bruised, brokeit'iag
1 cr
sionally half-despairing heart. The " s-r tool,
Water Sprite," from Goethe, are real Ger: e%`,11.,
tions. " Love and Parliament" amused nit 3'11?
ingly. We are sorry that we cannot class 0;10
b
the fanciful in Poetry. There is as 0.4 etr)„10
cleverness in it. Altogether this number lijeellte.
any which has appeared since the cotnn'e rgr
the new series.
,arrie
"Samuel Taylor Coleridge was the son of al,„ ,bers.oo
man, the vicar of Ottery, St. Mary, in the lie 1 c''Ati
of Devonshire. It is painful to mention tr4o,ll.Pf.' oleo
most an object of persecution to his mother: by v.,bri3O
never learn. His father was described to 111,e!
himself, as a sort of Parson Adams, being L'lcsi bio
his erudition, his inexperience of the world, an/ siebl.,lr
simplicity. I once purchased in London, and' „ ogee 0-10
possess, two elementary books on the Latin 131,A,."g,ths
reverend gentleman ; one of them, as I found, r0t0'0f,,,.1
what higher pretensions than a common school fboorloorio
particular, an attempt is made to re.orm tit° ~Ftic!ecatl°ti
cases ; and it gives a pleasant specimen of the each e
naivete, that he seriously proposes to banish„ tba c°ls?
terms as the accusative—and, by way of :411n1)1");re t",ehet'tir
to tender minds, that we should call it, in all .`loriri, 0),?
the "quale-quare-quiddative" case, upon what I„,l)6ilar;to,l,id
ble principle I never could fathom. He used br-re'lv
light his village flock, on Sundays, with 11 `l'',fialeter
in his sermons, which he always introduced as 'lolo'44olj'
language of -the Holy Ghost." This proved /5. pail; ' art
'
his successor ; he also was a learned man, and it tifoe,i
admitted it, but generally with a sigh for VI pati
sorrowful complaint that he was still far bel°''diate 'JO
ridge—for that he never gave them any " lair? reverit,
of the Holy Ghost." I presume that, like tu'i-cr011,,',01"
tleman so pleasantly sketched in St. Ronan's,rieota' •05/
ridge, who resembled that person in his
and his simplicity, must also have resemble iodico di/
sightedness, of which his son used to relate:modelle?
stance. Dining in a large party, one day, thart, 004°,/
was suddenly shocked by perceiving some "mu aPO ritg,
ceived, of his own snowy shirt emerging Jr"beea 'oil./ iv,
habiliments, which we will suppose to hav,eoso ettbeFtl.,
coat. It was not that ; but for decorum we s's-dinoahiso-toce;et,
stray portion of his supposed tunic was r to P cf,,
errors by a forcible thrust back into its Prsnerecoiediotelht
still another limbos persisted to emerge, or abso Apof•pa.
and still another, until the learned gentleman,
spired with the labour of re-establishing orruet;
all, he saw with ancruish, that some arrears °'To !4.0r
corum still remained to reduce into obedicncoa-pplytilble'l
naut of rebellion he was proceedino ao of poil
strangely confounded, however, at the obstinacy to iorct.,
rection—when the mistress of the house, ttsi lly , tr
the ladies from the table, and all parties nateurtAliat iltl4l
her, it became suddenly apparent to every
Orientalist had been most laboriously stowiagtbe
capacious receptacles of his own habiliinen,ts'bour
of a lady's gown, belonging to his next neipn ,odeed_bic!ijf`
luminously, that a very small portion of it, ice of::, 50,t(i
for the lady's own use: the natural conset,exiltrinabitertbcfi
of course, that the lady appeared almost way es areloc,
the learned theologian, and could not in any s•icar' oy A
lease, until after certain operations upotoitittheose srprofro4
a continued refunding and rolling ,not ,
upon snowy mazes, in quantities which, at Yio%_,,t'l'ios:l‘"
much for the gravity of the compaT":o.o,g ,;0110;',
excel)!
continued still re, of
laughter arose from all parties,
doctor, who, in dire perplexity, la arrearns sf;
all his might, until he had paid up
thef distress
debt, and thus put an end to a case 0- any '1; Ica'
ble to himself and his parishioner, than, Ited bi
quidditive' case had
- of tile sole i•or'
mat Fie w
CONSIDERATE THIEVES.
silverlately eased the s;tebwuatrdarotefroidmisocfu.st
aGtrii,_aso'esn'iatter -
they agreed to return it to him.