. Agriculture of New York : comprising an account of the classification, composition and distribution of the soils and rocks ... together with a condensed view of the climate and the agricultural productions of the state. Agriculture; Soils; Fruit-culture. JUKI ANALYSES OF WATERS. Fig. a. Onondaga limestone. ft. waterlime. c. Talus. d. Depth 45 feet. In regard to the mode in which these basin-shaped cavities were formed, it is Dr. Link- laen's opinion that i( was by subsidence. An interesting paper, maintaining this view, - read by Dr. L. before the American Association of Geologi
. Agriculture of New York : comprising an account of the classification, composition and distribution of the soils and rocks ... together with a condensed view of the climate and the agricultural productions of the state. Agriculture; Soils; Fruit-culture. JUKI ANALYSES OF WATERS. Fig. a. Onondaga limestone. ft. waterlime. c. Talus. d. Depth 45 feet. In regard to the mode in which these basin-shaped cavities were formed, it is Dr. Link- laen's opinion that i( was by subsidence. An interesting paper, maintaining this view, - read by Dr. L. before the American Association of Geologist* and Naturalists, at its meeting in 1S46. This view is sustained by the form of the above banks; by the per- pendicular, but circular walls ; by the nature of the superior rocks, or those which form the lower parts of the basin ; by the fad that subsidences on a smaller scale occur occa- sionally ; and lastly, by the still undisturbed position of the surrounding rocks, or the rock which fornix the sides. The Manlius Green lakes, which are small but beautiful sheets of water, furnish aboul 100 grains of saline matter to the gallon, a large proportion of which consists of the sulphate of lime ; a sufficient quantity, however, of the crenate of lime is dissolved, to impart a bitter taste. The vegetable matters which happen to get immersed in the waters of these lakes soon become incrusted with a calcareous deposit, a part of which is an apocrenate of lime. Another pond of the same character as the .Manlius Green pond, and whose basin is excavated in the same shales, contains a little more than one half the proportion of saline matter. The water of the Onondaga lake, which is also situated upon the salt and gypseous rocks, contains 51 -0S grains of saline matter per gallon. S aeateles lake is quite free from saline matter. It contains, however, lime in solution. A> an evidence of its comparative purity, it abounds in trout of a fine quality, some of which have been known to w
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