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44 under levd to any running water, there 

 " he digs his ponds for watering his lint, fo 

 " large as the ground will allow,, and near to 

 " three feet in depth. When his ponds are 

 " filled from the rivulet with water, he puts 

 " in his lint until the pond is full, but does 

 " not fmk it. The reafon why he ties the feed- 

 " end of one iheaf to the root-end of the o- 

 " ther is, that the roots being heavier would 

 a fink in the water, and the feed-end would 

 " be entirely out of the water; but when 

 " thus balanced, the lint being much of the 

 " fame fpecific gravity with the water, it is 

 " juft immerfed, and no more, and never 

 " comes near the ground or the mud. He 

 " turns it in the water every day, and if the 

 " weather is very hot, twice a day. He tries 

 " when it is enough watered, by breaking a 

 t; few ftalks ; and if the boon breaks freely, 

 " and parts eafily with the flax, then he takes 

 " it out, and carries it to a clear running 

 " ftream, and wafhes it very Well from al! 

 " its filth and naftinefs, and then fpreada 

 " it upon grafs (very thin) as we do. If 

 " water appear to be very much difcoloured 

 " in the pond, before his lint is fufficiently 



" made-, 



