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Prom Mrs. Somerville's Physical Geography.
The Atmosphere and Vegetation.
The atmosphere supplies the vege’able
creation with the principal part <»f its food;
plants extract inorganic substances from
thq ground, which are indispensable to
bring them to maturity. The black and
brown mould which is so abundant is the
produce of decayed vegetables. When
the autumnal leaves—the spoil of the sum
mer—fall to the ground, and their vitality
is gone, they enter into combination with
the oxygen of the atmosphere, and convert
it into an equal volume of carbonic acid
gas, which consequenly exists abundantly
in every good soil, and is the most impor
tant part of the food of vegetables. This
process is slow, and stops as soon as the
air in the soil is exhausted ; but the plough
by loosening the earth and permitting the
atmosphere to enter more freely, and pen
etrate deeper into the ground, accelerates
tho decomposition of the vegetable matter,
and consequently the formation of carbo
nic acid. In loosening and refining the
mould, the common earth-worm is the fel
low-laborer with man ; it catseaith, and,
after extracting the nutritious part, ejects
the refuse, which is the finest soil, and
may be seen lying in heaps at the mouth
of its burrow. So instrumental is this rep
tile in preparing the ground, that it is said
there’s not a particle of the finer vegetable
mould that has not passed through the in
testines of the worm ; thus the most fee
ble of living creatures is employed by
Providence to accomplish the most impor
tant ends. The food of the vegetable cre
ation consists of carbon, hydrogen, nitro
gen, and oxygen, all of which plants obtain
entirely from the atmosphere, in the form
of carbonic acid gas, water, and ammonia.
They imbibe these three substances, and,
after having decomposed them, they give
back the oxygen to the air, and consoli
date the carbon, water, and nitrogen into
wood, leaves, flowers - , fruit.
When a seed is thrown into the ground
the vital principle is developed by heat and
moisture, and part of the substance of the
seed is formed into roots, which suck up
water mixed with carbonic acid from the
soil, decompose it, and consolidate the
carbon. In this stage of their growth,
plants derive their whole sustenance from
the ground. As soon, however, as the su
gar and mucilage of the seed appear above
the ground, in the forms of leaves or shoots
they absorb aad decompose the carbonic
acid of the atmosphere, retain the carbon
for their food, and give out the oxygen in
the day,and pure carbonic acid in the night.
In proportion as plants grow, they derive
more of their food from the air and less
from the soil, till their fruit is ripened, and
then their whole nourishment is derived
from the atmosphere. Trees are fed from
the air after their fruit is ripe, till their
leaves fall; annuals, till they die. Air
pit nts derive all their food from the atmos
phere.
In northern and mean Inti udes winter
is a time of complete rest to tho vegeta
ble world, and in tropical climates the vi
gor of vegetation is suspended during the
dry, hot season, to be resumed at the re
turn of the periodical ruins. Almost all
plants sleep during the night; some show
it in their leaves, others in their blossom.
The mimosa tribe not only close their
leaves at night, but their footstalks droop ;
in a clover field not a leaf opens till after
sunrise. The common daisy is a familiar
instance of a sleeping flower ; it shuts up
itS uiuSSOm iii tliG aiiu GpcliS lis
white and crimson tipped star, the “day’s
eye,’’ to meetthe early beams of the morn
ing sun ; and then also “winking Mary
buds begin to ope their golden eyes.”—
The crocus, tulip, convolvulus, and many
others, close their blossoms at different
hours towards evening, some to open them
again, others,never. The condrille ofthe
walls opens at eight in the morning and
closes for ever at four in the afternoon.—
Some plants seem to be wide awake all
night, and to give out their perfume then
only, or at nightfall. Many of the jessa
mines are most fragrant during the twilight;
the olea fragrans, the daphne adorata, and
the night stock, reserve their sweetness
for the midnight hour, and the night flow
ering sirius turns night into day. It be
gins to expand its magnificent sweet-scent
ed blossoms in the twilight, it is full blown
at midnight, and closes, never to open a
gain, with the dawn of day : these are
“the bats and owls of the vegetable king
dom.”
How to Austlyzc Soils.
Ist. Take a small quantity of earth from
different parts of the Hold, the soilof which
you wish to ascertain, mix them well to
gether and weigh them ; put them ill an
oven heated for baking bread, and after
they are dried, weigh them again ; the dif
ference will show the absorbant power of
the earth. When the loss in weight in
400 grains amounts to 50 this power is
great, and indicates the presence of much
animal or vegetable matter; but when it
does not exceed 20, the absorbant power
is small, and the vegetable matter deli
cient.
2nd. Put the dried mass into a vase,
with one fourth of its own weight of clean
water; mix them well together; pour off
the dirty water into a socond vase, and pour
on as much clear water as before; stir the
contents and continue this process until
the water poured off is as clear as that
poured on the earth. What remains, in
the first employed vase after these wash
ings is sand, silicious or calcarious. 1
did. The dirty water, collected in the
second vase, will form a deposit, which
after pouring off the water, must be dried,
weighed and calcined —that is, reduced to
a powder. On weighing after ihe process,
the quantity lost will show the quantity of
animal and vegetable mould contained in
the soil.
4th. This calcined matter must then be
carefully pulverized and weighed, as also
the first deposit of sand, but without mix
ing them. To these, apply separately,
sulphuric acid and what they (the earths
and acids together) lose in weight, indi
cates the portion of calcarufi/s earth con
tained in the first vase after deducting the
lime, is silax ; that in the other, alumina.
Carbonate of lime, termed calcariousearth,
is composed of 55 parts of lime and 4G
pans of carbonic acid ; this acid is dis
placed, and driven off’by the muriatic acid,
in consequence of its stronger affinities for
the vase. Hence if the earths ami acid
weigh 45 grains less after the mixture
than before, supposing the quantity ex
perimented upon to be 400 grains, it shows
that 45 grains of carbonic acid have been
driven off, and that the soil contains 25
percent, of calcarious earth, or one fourth.
The proportion of this earth in good soils,
varies from 10 to 30 per cent.— Practical
Partner.
Chemistry of Animal Heat.— The
perpetual combination of the oxygen of
the atmosphere with the carbon of the food,
and with the effete substance of the body,
is a real combustion, and is supposed to
be tho cause of animal beat, because beat
is constantly given out by the combination
of carbon and oxygen ; and, without a con
stant supply of food, the oxygen would
speedily consume the whole animal except
the bones.
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Georgia Court Calendar,lor 1819.
Superior Courts.
JULY.
Ist Monday, Bibb
2d Monday, Decatur
2d Monday, Richmond
4tli Monday, Paulding
AUGUST.
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Cass
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Clark
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Pike
Walton
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Forsyth
Jackson
Meriwether
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Marion
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Fayette
Greene
Gwinnett
Harris
Madison
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Union
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DeKalh
Elbert
Gilmer
Hall
Putnam
Talbot
Telfair
j Thursday after, Irwin
4th Monday, Murray
Newton
Walker
Washington
Wilkes
OCTOBEIU
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Macon
Warren
Wilkinson
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Dado
Habersham
Hancock
Ilenry
Montgomery
Randolph
Twiggs
Thurdsay after, Tattnall
Mclntosh
i 3d Monday, Chattooga
Email ttel
Upson
Franklin
Fh.yd
Heard
Jones
Oglethorpe
4tli Monday, Early
Houston
Irwin
Jasper
Lincoln
Scriven
Stewart
Thursday before the last
Monday, Bulloch
.Monday after, Effingham
NOVEMBER.
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Jefferson
Muscogee
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Camden
Sumter
Friday after, Wayne
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Lee
Thomas
Monday after, Lowndes
Liberty
Thursday after, Bryan
Monday after, Ware
Thursday after,Appling
DECEMBER.
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JANUARY. |
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Rich mond
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•Ith Monday, Paulding
FEBRUARY.
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Cass
2d Monday, Cobb •
Clark
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Walton
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Forsyth
Jackson
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MARCH.
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Laurens
Lu mpkin
Marion
Monroe
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Taliaferro
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Fayette
Greene
Gwinnett
Harris
Madison
Pulaski
Union
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Filbert
Gilmer
Hall
Putnam
Talbot
Telfair
Thursday after, Irwin
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Newton
Walker
Washingto
Wilkes
APRIL.
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Macon
Warren
Wilkinson
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Dade
Glynn
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Hancock
Henry
Montgomery
Randolph
Twiggs
Thursday thereafter,
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Heard
Jones
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Oglethorpe
Upson
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MAY.
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M uscogne
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