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A Treatise, Shewing The Intimate Connection That Subsists Between Agriculture And Chemistry : Addressed To The Cultivators Of The Soil, To The Proprietors Of Fens And Mosses, In Great Britain And Ireland; And To The Proprietors Of West India Estates / By The Earl Of Dundonald
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even to the drier lands in‘ the‘vicmity of‘such fensor

MOSSscs.

The draining, reclaiming, and cultivating, lands so circamstanced, must appear not only important, from the great value of such lands when reclaimed, but likewise from the effects that such drainage would have on the climate, temperature, and vegetation of the adjacent

country.

Peat is an inflammable substance; consequently ca- pable of combining with pure air, or oxygen, and of becoming oxygenated; a process already explained in the preceding part of this Treatise. The surface of peat mosses, or What is most exposed to the action of air, is capable of becoming more oxygenated than the under

Stratum.

The oxygenation of peat, and indeed the combination of pure air or oxygen with inflammable substances, renders such substances less inflammable, a process ana- lagous to that of combustion: in both cases saline com- pounds are formed, which are uninflammable.

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