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Gf 3) 
*« dows.” ‘The latter are by far the moft general in 
this diftrict. 
It is impoffible to give any intelligible, written 
defcription of the mode of making thefe mea- 
dows. This operation muft be feen to be properly 
underftood. 
Catch-work meadows defcribed.—But to elucidate 
the diftinction between the two kinds of meadow, 
and to give fome idea what are the fituations in 
which they may be introduced, it may be neceflary 
to remark, that the “ catch-work meadow’’* is 
made by turning a fpring, or {mall ftream, along 
the fide of a hill, and thereby watering the. land 
between the New Cut, (or as it is provincially 
called, the Main Carriage) and the original water- 
courfe, which now becomes the “ main drain.” 
This is fometimes done in particular inftances, 
merely by making the new cut level, and flopping 
it at the end, fo that when it is full the water may 
run out at the fide, and flood the land below it. 
But as the water would foon ceafe to run equally for 
any great length, and would wath the land out in 
gutters, it has been found neceflary to cut {mall 
parallel trenches or carriages, at diftances of twenty 
or thirty feet, to catch the water again, and each 
of thefe being likewife ftopt at its end, lets the 
water 
* The “ catch-work meadows” are the kind that are fo common 
on the fides of the hills in Devonfhire. 
