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part of Loch Dochart might be drained by 

 deepening the river. After this was done, or 

 rather in doing of which, the whole banks 

 upon each fide of the river Dochart might be 

 Hoped with a gentle declivity, and covered 

 over with green turf or fwaird; the earth 

 taken from the water- fide, and carried forty 

 or fifty feet back, which would help to form 

 a Hoping bank to prevent the water running 

 upon the meadow. 



The beft way for conftrudling this bank is, 

 firft to mark out the breadth and height of 

 the banks and ditch you propofe to make ; 

 then pare all the turff off; this lay to one fide, 

 to be put upon the bank when finished ; then 

 throw up a ditch in the infide, from the wa- 

 ter, as large as you want to raife the bank, 

 to prevent the water from overflowing, which 

 ditch in the infide will help to drain the mea- 

 dows at the fame time ; the bank round up- 

 on the top, and Hoped on both fides. Then 

 cover the whole bank neatly over with the 

 turf, beat it down with the back of the fpade, 

 Hope the ditch in the infide, and fow it with 

 graft feed. This will prevent the meadow 

 from being covered with fand, which is often 



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