Show the ri iiI marshes Mar there is in russia a district as large as ireland known own by tile the above title and wholly impassable from tho the size and number of its morasses in addition to which it is covered with an impenetrable forest of undergrowth and tangled jungle and was utterly jisc useless at pre tent of acres have been reclaimed and during next year it is proposed that more shall bo taken irk in hand by means of miles of canals and dikes dikea it is id further reported that upward of acres of once useless I 1 bog bg are now good meadow land while acres of 04 impenetrable jungle have been brought into cultivation in addition to a all U this the en engineers gil ieca 8 1 have dav e built bri bridges d 6 sunk u wells and surveyed and mapped square miles of land if such a scheme as this can be so successfully cess fully carried out by russia rusia why should not wine borne such plan bo be tried in ireland A scientific contemporary ary referring to this question says the amount of bos bog in ireland would of 0 course bo be childs play to marshes for somehow wo ive are always confronted with be bog as the chief source of irish difficulties cul ties if its annihilation will ivill so well in reassie S issia it ought to do so equally pay in ireland nor should wo fo forget act than an undertaking of such bubli magnitude would bring immediate an and d con constant tant work from the very outset to half the able bodied population of tire country tho the suggestion is worth the attention of all interested in tho the prosperity of ireland chambers journal |