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reclaimation, or the converfion of a fnipe bog, not 
worth 7s. an acre, into a meadow, promifing to be 
worth 30s. per acre at leaft. Happy is it, when 
nuifances can be made profitable! more fo when 
an acre of pafture, loft as fuch to the publick, fur- 
nifhes materials to improve the adjacent land, to fix 
times the value of the portion that was annihilated! 
In forming the Andover canal which crofles 
an angle of this eftate, about an acre of good 
grazing ground, valued at 30s. a year, was taken 
in: the channel being, deep, the foil thrown -out 
proved various; loam, malm, gravel, and rubbith ; 
the next ground within a few yards of the {pot, 
was a morafs covered with a coarfe rufhy turf, fo 
tough by the interweaving of its roots, that it 
yielded to the tread of cattle without breaking un- 
der preffure ; and confequently their weight, which 
funk the various tracks below the general level, 
raifed the interftice between them into the hill- 
locks. During the whole winter, and the greateft 
part of the f{ummer months, the fummits only of 
thefe hillocks remained dry; bearing a coarfe ordi- 
nary herbage, to which the cattle feldom reforted, 
till drought had rendered the neighbouring paftures 
bare. This land lay fo low between two rivers, that 
it was deemed almoft impracticable to make it 
healthy. Tempted, however, by the quantity of 
foil at hand, the experiment was tried, and the plan 
(which was as follows) fucceeded beyond expec- 
tation. The 
