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water over its fide, and diftributes it until it is 
caught by the next, and fo on over all the interme- 
diate beds to the main drain at the bottom of the 
meadow, which receives the water, and carries it 
on to water another meadow below;; or, if it can 
be fo contrived, another part of the fame meadow 
on a lower level. 
To draw the water out of thefe parallel trenches 
or carriages, and lay the intermediate beds dry, a 
narrow deep drain crofles them at right angles, at 
about every nine or ten poles length, and leads 
from the main carriage at top to the main drain 
at the bottom of the meadow. 
When this meadow is to be watered, the ends of 
the carriages adjoining the crofs-drains are ftopt 
with turf dug on the fpot, and the water is thrown 
over as much of the meadow as it will cover well at 
a time, which the watermen called a “ pitch of 
** work; and when it is neceflary to lay this pitch 
dry, they take out the turves, and let the water into 
the drains, and proceed to water another pitch. 
This kind of water meadow is feldom expenfive: 
the ftream of water being ufually {mall and ma- 
nageable, few hatches are neceflary; and the land 
lying ona declivity, much lefs manual labour is re- 
quired to throw the water over it regularly, and 
particularly zo get it off again, than in the flowing 
meadows. The expence of making fuch a mea- 
dow is ufually from three to five pounds per acre; 
the 
