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An Essay on Calcareous Manures,

BY EDMUND RUFFIN,

A Practical Farmer of Virginia from 1812; founder and sole editor of the Farmer's Register; Member and Secretary of the former State Board of Agriculture; formerly Agricultural Surveyor of the State of South Carolina, and President of the Virginia State Agricultural Society. Fifth edition, amended and enlarged.

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An Essay on Calcareous Manures,

BY EDMUND RUFFIN,

A Practical Farmer of Virginia from 1812; founder and sole editor of the Farmer's Register; Member and Secretary of the former State Board of Agriculture; formerly Agricultural Surveyor of the State of South Carolina, and President of the Virginia State Agricultural Society. Filth edition, amended and enlarged.

Published by J. W. Randolph, 121 Main street. Richmond, Va., and for sale by him and all ather Booksellers; fine edition, 8vo., printed on good paper and strongly bouud, library style $2: cheap edmon, 12mo, $1 25.

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A large propertion of this publication consists of new matter not embraced in the preceding edition. The new additions or am ndments serve to present all the new and important lights on the general subject of the work, derived from the author's later observation of facts, personal experience, and reasoning founded on these premises. By such new additions, the present edition is mcreased more than one third in size, notwithstanding the exclusion of much of the least important matter of the preceding edition, and of all portions before included, that were not deemed essential to the argument, and necessary to the utility of the work.

"This work is from a Virginia gentleman whose contributions to Agricultural Science has already given an extensive popularity. Mr. Ruffin is a practical farmer of great intelligence, and is einuently competent to impart information on the subject, which has for so many years eugaged his attention.--Methodist Quarterly Review.

The Southern Planter in speaking about the cultivation of Irish Potatoes and Linung, says: But for the details of that business we would refer our correspondent to a hook, which it he has not now, we beg for his own credit that he will get as soon as he goes to Richmond, we mean the Gual edition of Essay ou Calcareous Manures."

June, 1853.

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VOL. XIX.

ENEID.

BOOK III.

RICHMOND, AUGUST, 1853.

When Priam's guiltless race the Gods laid low,
And at proud Asia struck a fatal blow;
When lofty Ilium reached its final day,
And Neptune's Troy in smoke and ashes lay;
By heavenly signs compelled the world to roam,
To seek in exile for some desert home;
We build a fleet beneath Antandros' walls,
And Ida's mount-wherever fortune calls,
Prepared to steer-collect our scattered host,
And brave the fates to find some friendly coast,
Scarce early summer lent its favoring gales,
My sire directs to spread to fate our sails;
With tearful eyes I leave my country's shore,

NO. 8.

Eneas, why this wretched body tear?
Respect the dead;-to stain thy hands forbear.
No stranger I, but born on Ilium's shore,
Nor from a trunk proceed these clots of gore.
These cruel lands, this home of avarice fly,
The Trojan, hapless Polydore, am I.
A mass of weapons on my body thrown,
Into this leafy crop of spears has grown.
Then varied fears my throbbing heart oppressed,
Silent, with hair erect I stood, and heaving breast.

When Priam saw the foe besiege his gates,
And Troy seemed sinking under adverse fates,
This Polydore, the youngest of his race,
He sent in secret to the King of Thrace;
With heaps of gold he sent his darling boy,

The child of his old age, its stay, its joy.

But when this wretch saw Ilium's power o'erthrown,
And envious fortune from its portals flown,

The plains where Troy once stood, ah! stands no more! With treacherous heart he tramples human right,

O'er stormy seas, and on their angry tide,

With friends, and son, and household gods beside-
I wandering rove, great heaven my only guide.

Sacred to Mars, and spread o'er distant plains,
There lies a land possessed by Thracian swains,
In times of old, where fierce Lycurgus reigned,
A monstrous wretch, by impious crimes distained.
In by-gone years, it was a firm ally,

When fortune frowned not yet, on prosperous Troy.
Hither I sail, and on the winding bay,
The first foundations of my city lay.

With adverse fates to barbarous lands I came,
And gave my friends my own-a wished-for name.
To Venus, guardian of this first essay,
And other Gods the sacred-rites I pay,

And to the king of Gods a snow-white bullock slay.
My foot, by chance, a rising hillock nears,
From which a myrtle sprung in bristling spears.
I come, and from the ground attempt to tear
Its shoots-that to the altars I might bear

The leafy boughs;-a sight too horrid to be told,
I see, but yet more frightful to behold,
The tree, that first with broken roots I tore,
Distils dark, dismal drops of clotted gore.
The earth is stained. My frigid members reel,
The streams of life with freezing fear congeal.
Another pliant shoot again I tore,
Resolved the latent causes to explore;
From the green bark again in gory tears,

The blood pours forth and fills my breast with fears.
Deep merged in thought, the rural Nymphs I pray,
And Mars, who rules those lands with sov'reign sway,
That they, in pity and in might, may please
These visions to avert, these omens ease.
But when, with effort greater than before,
The third green spear I from the thicket tore;
Grasping the rigid trunk with straining hands,
And pressing with my knees the yielding sands;
Shall I, in words, the dreadful fact reveal,
Or in deep silence all its horrors seal?
A mournful groan beneath the mount I hear,
And accents sad but plain assail my ear.

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Deserts his friends and sides with Grecian might,
With cruel wounds the hapless youth destroys,
And by foul murder all his wealth enjoys.
Accursed thirst of gold! thy wicked spell
Can human hearts to every crime compel!

When fear no more continues to appal,
Anchises first, and chosen chiefs I call,
To them the omens of the gods disclose,
And put the question, what they now propose.
One thought, one mind, impels the patriot band,
At once to quit the dread, accursed land,
Their blood-polluted host to leave behind,
And trust their fleet and fortunes to the wind.
First, funeral-rites we pay to Polydore,
Raise a great tomb of earth upon the shore;
To soothe his Manes holy altars found,
With cypress sad and sable fillets bound.
Our matrons stand around with troubled air,
With eyes cast-down, and with dishevelled hair;
Large foaming bowls of tepid milk we pour,
Upon his tomb, with cups of sacred gore!
Within the sepulchre his ghost we lay,
And bid a last farewell unto his clay.

So soon as we could trust the angry main,
And gentle zephyrs fanned its breast again;
When whispering Auster summons us once more,
Our seamen launch their ships, and fill the shore,
From port we sail, without one kind adieu,
And land and cities vanish from our view.
A sacred isle and grateful to the eye
Amid the blue geän we descry;
Here Doris, mother of the Nereid train
And lordly Neptune have a holy fane.
This as it strayed the coasts and shores around,
To Mycon and Gyaros' cliffs Apollo bound,
For culture, then, bestowed it on mankind,
And caused it to defy the waves and wind.
Hither I steer, and in its quiet port,
Find for my weary friends a safe resort.
When, disembarked, upon the shore we stand,
Apollo's city we revere, and land.

Anius, Apollo's priest, as King, too, crowned,