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It is aftonifhing to think, how much good 

 foil every year is carried away with the land 

 Hoods into the fea ; a great part of which 

 might be retained by contracting the rivers, 

 particularly at the end where they run into 

 the fea. 



If rivers great andfmall, were ftraighten- 

 cd, and more confined, with banks of a gen- 

 tle ilope, covered with a green fwaird, the 

 damage would not be fo great at every land- 

 flood as it now is. 



If the mouth of every river was confined, 

 and carried confiderably farther out into the 

 fea, in a courfe of years, a great addition 

 would be made to the coaft. For the foil that 

 comes down the river, would in part fettle 

 upon the more, wherever there was an eddy, 

 and, at the fame time, the river would be 

 deepened ; and confequently, the navigation 

 rendered fafer, as the tides would be higher 

 when confined, than when allowed to fpread 

 over a great tracl of ground. 



This plan has been actually carried into 

 effect at Aberdeen ; and, by this means, a 

 fand-bank, which had nearly choaked up the 

 mouth of the river, has been carried off. 



Tliere are many fituations by the fea-fide, 



which 



