years in grafs, it would furprife every one to 

 fee what great crops of corns they would pro- 

 duce ; and lint in particular could be flooded 

 when three or four inches long, which would 

 benefit the crop amazingly. 



The advantages arifing from this embank- 

 ^t would be twenty times above the ex- 

 pence. 



Every place by river fides in the like fitua- 

 tion might be greatly improved by thefc 

 means, wherever the fituation of the ground 

 would allow to bank out the water and let it 

 overflow at pleafure in time of floods. Though 

 the ground was ever fo poor, even nothing 

 but gravel or fand, yet in a courfe of years 

 it would become a rich foil ; as every flood 

 leaves a fediment upon the furface. What 

 are all your rich carle clays but mud or fedi- 

 ment fettled in former ages in this way ? 



There is a very great difference between 

 this and water running every flood over a 

 meadow, when it only leaves fand or gravel. 

 If in tillage,, it carries away the foil; if in 

 grafs, it hurts the pafture ; the fine mould 

 going all down the river. But wherever a 

 field is banked, fo as to keep the water from 

 Funning, and left open at the foot, then the 



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