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The hillocks, confifting of alight parenchymous 
[{pongy ] fubftance, were in the firft place cut down, 
thrown together in lines eight or ten feet broad; the 
water was drained off in the next, and by an open 
channel conveyed into the riyer near 200 yards be- 
low. The whole ground was then laid out in beds, 
or oblong compartments about 20 feet wide, having 
head-lands with furrows to the Eaft and South-wett, 
to receive the foakage of the rivers, and a main 
drain at the bottom, to convey the water to the 
diftance above-mentioned, This done, a mixture 
of the loam, malm, and gravel, was laid about 16 
inches thick over the inverted hillocks, along the 
centre of the beds, floping off each way to their 
edges. Ditches two feet wide, and a fpit anda 
half deep, were then funk between bed and bed, 
communicating ,with the drain below. The peaty 
fubftance thrown out of thefe ditches was fpread 
over the centre of the beds, fo as to form a compoft 
with the loam, gravel, &c. and the ditches them- 
felves were afterwards filled with fheer gravel fo 
high as to remain like furrows to the beds, which, 
by the addition they had received, were now become 
ridges of confiderable elevation. Having proceeded 
in this manner through the piece, and given it three 
ploughings to mix and meliorate the foil, it was 
fowed, in 1793, with white oats, cow-grafs, and 
Dutch clover; of the former, only three buthels 
per acre were allowed, the grafs being my chief 
object 
