Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1837-03-24

'HS 'HToWn up DY Tue plough WITHIN the
limits OF this stratum, spring in their turn,
and cover the surface with trees of a now
kind"
In support Of this theory he cites the fol-
lowing cases, which among others were
within his knowledge. "A field about five
miles from Norlham'on on nm eminoncc
called Rail Hill, was cultivated about
century ago. The native growth here,
ADD in oil the surrounding region. was
wholly oak, chesnn. &c. As the field be-
onged to my grand father, had the best
opportunity OF learning lis history. 1t con.
tanned abou, five octes, in the form of an
irregular parallclogram. AS the savsges
rendered the cultivation dangerous, it was
up. On this ground there sprung W
grove OF white pines, covering the field,
and retaining its figure exactly. s. far
as remember, there was not 10 il sin
gle oak or chesnut tree. Pines were as
thick as they could conveniently grow;
and when first saw them, about the year
1850, had attained considerable szc.-
When last saw them, more than 90 years
afterwards, they were large trees; yet
there was not single pine, whose seeds
were or probably, had for ages been. SUI
licient'y near to have been planted on the
spot, The facts, that these white pines
covered this field exactly, so as to preserve
both his extent and figure, and that there
| were none in the neis borhood, are dcsisivc
! proofs that cultivation brought up the seeds
Of former forest within the limits Of veg
citation and give them an opportunity to
to terminate. The regularity and limits
of the processes arc entirely inconsistent
with the doctrine Of eQuivocal generation,
A respectful farmer in Gulliord in
formed me, some years since, hat thirty
years before the event. to which prnci-
pally refer in this paragraph. took place,
found a quantity of chess, which he direc'
ted laborers to reaap also, and bind in
bundles to be carried home for fodder.
On the day, when the wheat was carried
home it was announcement to carry the
chess e; it was, therefore, thrown together
upon bank, or hcadand. The following
night it was drenchcd with rain. and final
~ left to rot upon the place. Thirty years
after this fact the field having come by
his fathers death into the possession of
my informant, it became necessry to
make new fence between that, and an
other bordering upon it, but as Il consider
nblo number OF bushes had grown up upon
f. rcmoye Tho fanca md brenk m ,hoso
hoaJ IonJs MA crowd vos ,ccnrd,nn,,
clc,reI and nlouahsd and IN tho snot
where the chess had bcpn thrown there
snruno nm now cron of chess os evon,v
snreod as if il had beon sown hv sk;Ifnl
hand.
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Mr.. Parker, an English gentleman from
iorRsh're; VINO came some years SINCE TO
the Un'ted states as Inc Agent from the
merchants OF England 10 the government
or tins country, informed me, that tract
OF marsuy ground on the eastern shore OF
Eng Iahd had' some years before, been
purchased by several gentlemen, and dram.
ed. On the earth, winch was thrown out
OF the d''ches' cn' through II, 'here sprung
up great quantity OF white mustard AS
ms plant mad not heen known TO grow
any where IN the vicIn'y, WiIhin The re-
membrance OF any lv!ng man, us appear
schemes to account Tor IT, had been pre-
n rns nnH or .