308 November 1748. 



water might run into their ponds, which is 

 very falutary for the fifh : for that purpofe 

 the ponds were placed near a fpring on a 



hill. 



November the 13th. I saw in feveral 

 parts of this province a ready method of 

 getting plenty of grafs to grow in the mea- 

 dows. Here muft be remembered what I 

 have before mentioned about the fprings, 

 which are fometimes found on the fides of 

 hills and fometimes in vallies. The mea- 

 dows lie commonly in the vallies between 

 the hills : if they are too fwampy and wet, 

 the water is carried off by feveral ditches. 

 But the fummer in Penfylvania is very hot; 

 and the fun often burns the grafs fo much, 

 that it dries up entirely. The hufbandmen 

 therefore have been very attentive to pre- 

 vent this in their meadows : to that pur- 

 pofe they look for all the fprings in the 

 neighbourhood of a meadow ; and as the 

 rivulets flowed before by the mortelt way 

 into the vallies, they raife the water as 

 much as poflible and neceffary, to the 

 higher part of the meadow, and make feve- 

 ral narrow channels from the brook, down 

 into the plain, fo that it is entirely wa- 

 tered by it. When there are fome deep- 

 er places, they frequently lay wooden gut- 

 ters acrofs them, through which the water 



flows 



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