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I think it reafonable to believe, that the fecond 

 divifion of land is greatly improved by the water's 

 having been aflifted by the adventitious increafe of 

 the running of farm-yards, &c. falling into it in its 

 paffage. And it is probable, that the firfl divifion 

 •would be improved, if the fecond divifion of water 

 could be conveyed upon it ; but whether equally fo 

 as with its own water, is a queftion. 



I think I am juftified in faying, that the fecond 

 fort of land would be vaftly improved by the firfl: 

 divifion of water being thrown over it. I ground 

 my opinion upon an obfervation I have frequently 

 made, that in a feries of dry weather, when the 

 ftream from the fprings, as I imagine, could not 

 have received any foreign aid, being conveyed over 

 lands of the fecond divifion, and as clear as if it 

 had ifTued immediately from the fpring-head, the 

 vegetative powers, particularly if in warm weather, 

 have been fo wonderfully exerted, that in a few days 

 a beautiful verdure has fucceeded a parched rufty 

 appearance. Here I think a queftion arifes, 

 " Whether the foil, or the quality of the water, 

 contribute moft to make the firfl: divifion of land 

 better than the fecond?" And I fhould be very 

 glad to fee a rcafon given, why perfectly clear wa- 

 ter being thrown over the meadows in the warm 

 months, and kept there a few days too long, not 



ftagnated, 



