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Tery flood ; and if any breach happens, it 

 ought to be inftantly repaired, otherwife a 

 confiderable part may give way. If this an- 

 fwers, which I think it may, being looked 

 attentively after, it is much cheaper than Mr 

 , M'Lean's fence. Here the banks alfo require 

 to be floped, and the bed of the river ftraight- 

 cned in the manner mentioned before, with 

 a bulwark, or head projecting into the wa- 

 ter, in fome places, to alter the courfe of it, 

 where it was encroaching. 



I was~fliown at a diftance, a large extent 

 of ground, banked in the fame manner as 

 Mr Tod's, by Captain John MTherfon, Bal- 

 lachron ; but was not upon the ground. I 

 hope it anfwers the ends propofed. 



In all thefe embankments, the water mould 

 be allowed, by means of a fluice, to come in 

 at the foot, which would enrich the field e- 

 very time the water came over it. 



If ibwii with lint, it would be a great ad- 

 vantage to the crop, to let the water in after 

 it was three or four inches high. In place of 

 hurting, it might double the value. 



Mr Hugh Tod's funk fences at Ruthven 

 are exactly upon the plan I have recommend- 

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