The trip to or from the island extends to
from fifty-five to seventy days, or, includ
ing tho lime necessary to take in a cargo,
a voyage out and homo extends to from
six to seven months. When Captain
Farr h ft Ichaboe, he estimated the guano
deposito on that island alone to extend to
one thousand feet in length, by five bun
dred feet in breath, with an average depth
of thirty live feet, containing, perhaps,
froin 700,001) to 800,000 tons. It is evi
dent, therefore, that this supply will soon
bo exhausted in fertilizing the soil of
Great Britain and her dependencies, but it
is to be hoped that vast stores of it vet ex
ist, which have hitherto not yet been dis
turbed by man. On this subject wc quote
the following cheering statement from tlte
South Commercial Advertiser, published
at Capo Town in January last :
"On tho rocky headlands, or on the
rocky and unmolested islands on the west
coast, both within and beyond ihc bound
ary of this colony, where the sea-fowl,
from a vast expanse of open ocean, come
lo breed, enormous masses of this manure
havo recently been discovered ; and it
seems probable that all tho way up the
coast into tho gulf of Guinea, and beyond
it, similar treasures await tho agriculture
of the world, by which moans the sea will
render back to the' land much more nutt
ier fitted to form organized, lhat in, vege
table and animal substances, than the ri
vers carry down into its depths, or the
fleets of the nations deposito in their
course over its surface. Farmer's Jour.
A Large-Mouthed Man. The N. Y.
