28 HE PRACTICAL PLANTER. 



Where the bank is highly elevated above 

 the level of the water, success may be more 

 reasonably expected, than where it lies low 

 and flat; provided the soils bear some affinity to 

 each other, or that the soil of the higher 

 ground be not materially worse for the pur- 

 pose than that of the lower or flat ground, 



I argue thus There is what the seamen 

 term a lull on a lee shore ; which is observa- 

 ble within some three to twenty hundred 

 yards, more or less, according to the abrupt- 

 ness or flatness of the bank ; the current of 

 wind passing in a direct line between some 

 certain point of the surface of the water, and 

 the summit of the bank. If this is the case, 

 must not the inferior part of the bank be 

 equally included in the lull with the margin 

 of the water? In the other case, that is, 

 where the land rises but little above the level 

 of the water, the wind passes, as it were, over 

 one continued plain ; accumulating in vi- 

 gour and velocity, until it is obstructed and 

 broken by some distant mountain or high 

 ground. 



Thus shall the plantation situated on the 

 ejevated ground, except what part of it ex- 



