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BORER FOR DRAINING BOGGY LANDS. 



Grapes. 

 ftom grapes. Fecula is found abundantly in them, it is that which makes 



the ley of wines ; but to fpeak of this product would be to 

 anticipate what I have to fay on fermentation. Laflly, gluten 

 is found in quinces, apples and, without doubt, in other 

 fruits ; it is found in the acorn, the horfe chefnut, the Spanifli 

 chefnut, rice, barley, rye, peafe, and beans of all forts. I 

 fhall return to this fubjeclin treating of the difference between 

 wheat which has germinated and that which has not under- 

 gone this operation. 



IV. 



drain riles up. 



Remedy by 



boring. 



Defcription of a Borer for draining Boggy Land. 

 ^Thomas Eccleston, Esq.* 



Chief difficulty A HE greater!: obftacle to the effectual draining of many 

 of draining bogs, boggy lands, confifts in the earth in the bottoms of the ditches 



The newly cut * . , . r . .. .. . A 



or drains when newly cut, and more elpecially ir made to any 



confiderable depth, rifing from the preflure of the waters 

 contained in the bog, by which the new-cut drains and ditches 

 are frequently fo nearly rilled up, as to impede the flowing of 

 the water they were intended to carry off, and thereby ren- 

 dering the work comparatively ineffectual. 



There are different layers, or ft rata, in mofs or peat lands, 

 which will not allow the water eafily to filtrate through 

 them, yet are of fo foft and fpongy a nature as to rife from the 

 preflure of the water contained in the bog. 



It becomes neceflary to give a free vent to the above con- 

 fined water, effectually to drain fuch lands. This has been 

 moit fuccefsfully done by the Augre, a model of which I 

 have herewith prefented to the fociety. 



A common augre, or even a pole, will force a paflage, 

 and give vent to the water for a fliort time ; but owing to the 

 peat being only prefled fideways, and not cut out, the parts 

 foon join again, and the paflage of the water of courfe be- 

 comes completely obftrucled ; but by means of this augre, a 

 cylindrical column of peat of fix inches diameter will be 

 clearly cut out and taken thence, and a free paflage maintained 

 for a very confiderable fpace of time. 



* Soc. of Arts. 1801. 



The 



Method infuf- 



iicicnt. 



