Star.
London, England, 1804-11-01 00:00:00

IMPROVEMENT OF MOSSY LIPIDS.

Sir inns &swat has communicated to the pub-
lic the refult of fame eztenlive espeliments he has
been lately making on the improvement of molly
I landi. _ .

He flares his failure for two years; but the third
had completely removed all doubts of hi, ultimate
fuccefs in this important undertaking.
The miles of h;s original failure and of his old
mate fuccefs he affigns to his having. aid?, omitted
Ito mark the diftinetion between quid and dad mofs,
which was lately called to his attention by a petufal
of Dr. ANDWRION'S Praairal Efay int Prat MO; in
which, for the &It time to his -knowledge, that dif-
tintlion is pointed out. 0 lVhile it is quick or grow-
ing, it cannot aiford fond for other vegttables, being
a vegetable, or a combination of vegetables, Welt ;
it is necefiltry, therefore, to convert it into dead mole,
before it can be produßive." And he a(ligns this
additional caufe, that he had adopted the mode ufed
in England for flat fens, whereas the grounds on
which he tried the experiments lay on the fides of
hills.

The mode he recommends is, after having ufed
the fen plough for paring the furface merely, for
which alone it is calculated, to plough deep before
attempting to crop the land, the utility of which
praCtice Dr. Asiosason had experienced. " lie
knew," Pays Sir Jour, " the benefici.ll effeCts of deep
ploughing, and of expofing mofs to the influence of
froth by which it is converted, not only into a fertile
foil, but even into a manure, well adapted for light
or clayey lands. It is, however, particularly to be
obferved, that expelling a mAry foil to the influence
of the fun, or ploughing it doting the fumnicr fea-
fon, does mifchief, drying up its moidur e, and Chang•
in it into peat for Inel, after which it is almolt proof
againll the elleas of fruit; whereas the more it can
be expofed to Croft the better t as it is thus changed
from quick into dead mots and fertilized at the (Arne
time. Hence it appears that the moires which are fa
gloomy and fo unpleatant to look at, in their origi-
nal (late, and the abundance of frail, which fo many
object to in the climate of Scotland, may become
fources of fertility and riches."

Pet AAAAA soc—On this head he recommends la
begin with draining the land. In as to put it into a
Rate for being ploughed, without rendering it at the
fame time too dry. After burning the heather, and
tiling the fen ploughs for paring the furface, the fur-
face may be made into turf walls fm (bettering the
grounds, or for filling up holllws. When the rut face
is cleared, the mots to be ploughed, to the depth of
from fie to nine inches with a common Scots plough,
during ;he months of September, °antler, and all the
winttr months while praair.l.l,:, caroling the tools
as much a. roflible to the (roil. file frequent tile of
a heavy roller is recommended, as reflecting the foil
fooner capable of producing abundant crops, and et-
feaually banithing that noxious ss ced fntreU, with
with which it is otherwife apt to overfpread.
As manure—fire fpread over the furface is recom-
mended, the albes to be immediately harrowed in,
and the ground lown. Dung, lime, clay, land, or
(mall gravel, may alto be employed, as circum•
Rance' requite.

Bear, oats, rye, rye-grafs, rape, red clover, and
the graft called York&ire fog, kern the crops which
anfwer

Of the fuccal6on of crops Sufficient time has not
elapfed to enable a judgment to be formed. The
great objea, however, is Rated to be to get &elands
laid down into graft as fpecJily as pollible. They
can then be broken tip with the fen plough, the fur-
face burnt, and the quantity of lid, anus which the
roots of the graft will produce, will enfure a fuccef•
Son of abunJant crops for the lag three years. of
which two may be grain, and with the lag crop of
grain. the land may be again laid down in grafs.
" There is grout reaftai," lays Sir John, to h.:-
liege, that by following Poch a Wiens. the esttnt:-e
bogs in England, Svittarid, and Ireland, may he
rendered fertile, and a great addition made to the
wealth of the couLtry, and to the cubtlitence LI it.
inhabitants."

ICL;idiktrkAL PROMOTION*.
Theßey. M DeA M. Prebendary of ChWieder, and
Fellow of Hertford College Oxfnrd, is preferred to the Reeler,
of Fordham, in Effa, vacated by the raj/onion of the Re►. C.
Onley.
On Monday, the Senate of the UniverSty of Olargow, conferred
the degree of Dodos. in Theology, no the Re's. Claude Buchanan,
I.L.D. Vke Prorolt of the College of Fort Wiliam, Calcutta, in
BerigaL
The Synod of Penh and Stirling. at their meeting at Perth la*
Meek, ordered the tranilation o the Rev. Mr. Campbell.froen the
print of Kippur, to the Steeple Churth of Dandee.
°Ural D, OCT. 17—Saturday the mith indent, Mr. Chrlftophor
Lipfeomb, of New College, was admitted IllseliclorM Arts.
Wedndday tha asth the Rev. Franck Fikner, btudan 10 Lairs
of St. Alban Hall, was admitted Bachelor in Law. Thos. Pennant.
Efq: of Chrift Church, B A. was admitted Mafter M Arts, Waal
'Compounder. Mr. John Matthias Turner, of Chalk Church, wan
admitted a complete Bachelor at Arts, Mein became of the Gm-
tiemen who dlitinguilhod theinfelvis in the extraordinary nutosl-
nation* of the prefect year: Marc George Furless( Wife, of Ev.
eter College ; B Manila Pope, of Chat Church; and ProjericAlsii
gnftus Lawrence, of queen's College, were admitted RachelorA of
Ans. The Reversed Mr. King, formerly of Mk Unkerfity, and
Rector of Nuthurft and Fittkworth, in the Ohmic of Clikliefter;
tat boon prekoted by the Right Earl Paden, to the Valuable
Rc&ory of Lympihno, in Somerfetilike, worth wool. per son.