the cafe in time of flood. This bank may be 

 made for two fhillings the fix yards, fuppof- 

 ing it to be ten or twelve feet broad at bot- 

 tom, and five feet high, or perhaps cheaper. 

 The height and breadth of the bank depends 

 upon the height that the water rifes at the 

 highefh flood ; the level of which fhould be 

 taken before the banks are made. 



Thefe meadows, when large, ought to 

 be divided by a bank running acrofs 

 the breadth of the field, made in the fame 

 manner as the other, by a ditch thrown out 

 in the under fide, divided into ten or twenty 

 acres. 



At the foot of each inclofure, next the war 

 ter, place a flood-gate or fluice to draw up 

 and down at pleafure ; by which means little 

 fand would come in. At every time the in- 

 clofure was overflowed, a fine rich mould 

 would be left upon the furface, and enrich 

 it very much, and every year be increafing 

 in richnefs. 



If this was done properly, there are few 

 fpots in Scotland that would produce better 

 crops of hay or pafture. The meadows being 

 naturally of a good foil, and the water of a 

 very enriching quality, after being a number of 



years 



