 | 1836 - 566 pages
...affords one method of judging of the productiveness of land." He farther stares, that one thousand parts of a celebrated soil from Ormiston in East Lothian,...with moisture at a temperature of 62°, 18 grains j and that one thousand parts of a very fertile soil from the banks of the river Parrel in Somersetshire,... | |
 | joseph rogerson - 1840 - 500 pages
...as was long since observed by Sir H. Davy, a conclusion in which I have often had occasion to agree. hour by exposure to air saturated with moisture at a temperature of 62 degrees, eighteen parts. 10OO parts of a very fertile soil from the banks of the river Parrel, in Somersetshire,... | |
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... 212°, gained in an hour by exposure to air saturated with moisture, at temperature 62°, 18 grains. 
