...It consists of about 30 of lime, 21 of magnesia, 47 of carbonic acid, 1 of clay and oxide of iron. The lime obtained from it is greatly esteemed for...destroyed when the quantity is large : this effect It occurs in strata at Bredon hill near Derby ; at Matlock in the same county. A great range of hills...

...great range of hills, extending from Nottingham to Sunderland in Fngland, are entirely composed of it. The lime obtained from it is greatly esteemed for...the atmosphere than the lime of common limestone. — Phillips. When magnesia exists in considerable quantity in a soil, it wholly destroys vegetation....

...great range of hills, extending from Nottingham to Sunderland in England, are entirely composed of it. The lime obtained from it is greatly esteemed for...carbonic acid from the atmosphere than the lime of common limestone.—Phillips. When magnesia exists in considerable quantity in a soil, it wholly destroys...

...quotation from Phillip's Mineralogy, p. 166, where in speaking of magnesian lime-stone, he says, " The lime obtained from it is greatly esteemed for...the atmosphere than the lime of common lime-stone," seems to correspond with the opinion I have been inclined to form of it. I have recently had an opportunity...

...great range of hills, extending from Nottingham to Sunderland, in England, are entirely composed of it. The lime obtained from it is greatly esteemed for...the atmosphere than the lime of common limestone. — Phillips. When magnesia exists in considerable quantity in a soil, it wholly destroys vegetation....

...Gurhoff § and Aggsbach in Lower Austria. The mortar obtained from this species is esteemed for cement, being less subject to decay, owing to its absorbing less carbonic acid from the atmosphere than that of common limestone. But for agricultural purposes it is ol inferior value ; for when Inid on...