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Mr Hay of Leys has banked in Mugdrum 

 inch in the fame manner, where he has had 

 extraordinary crops. 



The advantage of thefe places is, that they 

 can be enriched by overflowing with water, 

 by means of iluices, which ought to be done 

 every year. 



Lord \Veymfs is joining the ifland to the 

 main land, by a (lone bulwark acrofs ; by 

 which he will acquire a considerable quantity 

 of very fine foil. And I am informed by Mr 

 Somerville already mentioned, that it is fill- 

 ing up an inch every full tide, in twenty four 

 hours, when the water is muddy. 



Thirdly, General Graham has made fome 

 very great improvements upon the mofs 

 grounds below his houfe at Gorthie, firft, 

 By cutting ditches acrofs to drain it, and di- 

 viding the ground into different inclofures ; 

 fecondly, By banking out the river called the 

 Powe. 



By thefe embankments, he keeps off the 

 water that comes either from the high 

 grounds or the river. At the fame time, he 

 has wooden fluices, after the Dutch form, up- 

 on each of his inclofures, to let the water in 

 and out at pleafure j and thus he produces 



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