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trked to be divided into three parts, by means of two improvement 

 large hatches within the meadow. Each of these princi- of boggy lands, 

 pal divisions may again be divided into still smaller parts, ^ S • 

 by putting a common hatch or board made to the shape 

 of either of the main feeders, which will stop the water 

 out of any part, and force so much the more upon that 

 which is intended to be floated. These contrivances are 

 often necessary on account of the great scarcity of water, 

 and also for the purpose of employing all the water upon 

 any one part of the meadow, while the grass is feeding off , • 



the other ; and (if the levels will admit of it) something 

 like this ought to be done in every good water-meadow, 

 for it is not merely the elevated or high-ridged form of the 

 surface, which constitutes a good water-meadow, but such 

 a disposition of the parts as is best calculated for the ge- 

 neral purposes to which the land, the water, or its pro- 

 duce, may be most advantageously applied. The three 

 parts of tliis meadow are upon two diiferent levels, so 

 that the drawing of either of the hatches before men^ 

 tioned lays all the high part dry, and puts either the 

 North or the South part of the lower level afloat at the 

 same time. By keeping down one of those hatches and 

 opening the other, all the water may be turned either 

 upon the North or the South part of the low level, as oc- 

 casion may require ; or if both the hatches be shut down, 

 the whole of the water may be used upon the high level, 

 •rtwo first sets of beds. 



If there is more water than is sufficient to float either 

 of the three parts separately, either of the two regulating 

 hatches may be fixed at such a height as to use the remain- 

 der on the upper level * or the high level of the meadow 

 may be made to receive its full quantity of water, and an 

 opening be left under one or both of the hatches, so as to 

 distribute the remainder of the water on either of the 

 jparts of the lower level, wherever it may be wanting ; or 

 -the whole of the water may be used upon one of the 

 lower levels, by adjusting the hatch so that that part 

 *hall have sufficient water, and drawing up the other high 

 enough to discharge the surplus ; or, if one part is float- 

 ing, and neither of the other pieces in want of water, any 

 overplus may be turned down the waste ditch which di- 

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