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r añy other kind of trees that are known to proſper in a cold elevated ſituation; planting them thick, ſo as to forma good ſcreen fence.—IÏf this method was purſued, I have no doubt but the land would be Tomplete}y drained, and the air would be rendered con- fſiderably warmer by the ſcreen or fences on the ſides of the drains. The land would be uſeful for paſture, or the growth of potatoes or oats, and of twenty times its preſent value.—Between Buxton and fr the country is ſtill more mountainous.‘The aſpe& is horrid| Mountains covered with black peat, whereon grows nothing but heath, bogberri ies,&c. and wheréon feeds nothing but a few miſerable half-famiſhed Ti In fad, it is a diſgr to the country we live in. I ſay this*from a full bretti that what I have advanced is praéticable.—By the ſides of the turnpike-road, that paſſes over theſe horrid mountains, there are ditches made to keep the road ſound, on the margins of which the peat is in ſome degree’ mixt with the materials that form the road. This produces a perfe carpet of white clover, and even netíles, that ſure teſt of a rich ſoil, grow oa it in great abundance.-—T'his /urely is enough to convince any reaſonable man of the certainty of ſucceſs in draining and cultivating theſe moors, eſpecially as the immenſe lime ROE of Buxton is ſo very near, and lime is of all manures the beſt for the improve=- ment of a drained peat-bog.

Coventry, May 31, 1802.

ON THE EXTRAORDINARY FOOD OF CATTLE IN SIBERIA. To the Editor of the Commercial and Agricultur al Magazine.

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OU have entertained us, at different times, in your Publica- H E tion, with a variety of roles of feeding cattle; for which you, or your correſpondents, are entitled to our thanks. You have aſſured us, that fs may be fed with almoſt any thing of a vegetable nature; but I beg leave to inform your readers, that they are not very averſe even to animal food. The inſtance hiEA I am about to adduce, 1s, I grant, an extraordinary one z but when the very reſpe&able authority, from whence it is de- rived, is known, its authenticity will not be doubted. Lt is nar- rated by Mr. Sauer, Secretary to a Geographical and Aſtronomi- cal Expedition to the northern parts of Ruſia, ſent by command of the late Empreſs, Catharine,

«When at Ochork, a city of Siberia,” ſays Mr. Sauer,‘ we dined with Mr. Saretchefff on cold roaſt béef, which taſted ſo fiſhy, that we BE it Bad been baſted with in ol. In the afternoon we drank tea at the commandant’s; this alſo taſted of fiſh 5 and when I mentioned it to our hoft, be recommended the next cup without cream, which was very good. He told me that