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... Agrf(ultivill Informatfoll. - 4! SPONTANEOUS COMIBUSTION OF GUANO.- l It is well known that the dung of many birds will ignite is spontaneously. Galen himself takes notice of this, for w ho states that pigeon's dung takes fire when it becomes or rotten, and that one was sufficient to set fire to awhole st house. Father Casati, a Jesuit, says it was from the on large quantity of the dung of ...