" their views and ferious reflections on that 



" fide. 



" What fervices might be rendered to the 

 " country by men paid by the government 

 " for making it their principal occupation, 

 " to know diflinclly all that is pradlifed by 



c divers nations, and in particular the Dutch, 



c for banking out rivers, for placing their 

 " works in a flate of refifling the aftion of 

 " the waves, flow, or violent ; for draining 

 " marflies ; for directing the waters, and 



' diflributing them conformably to the 

 fei views propofed. 



" A fovereign ought never to be the fubjedl 

 u of regret, for giving penfions to thofe who 

 " having the neceffary talents, confecrate 

 " themfelves to a fludy fo ufeful to their 

 " country." 



There is a very confiderable difference as 

 to the quality of waters* fome having a more 

 fertilizing property than others. 



As faid before, the muddier that the wa- 



* 



tcr is, the better ; and the quality of it much 

 depends on the richnefs of the foils that the 

 r has to pafs through ; part of the fine 

 particles being carried clown and dcpolked on 

 the low grounds. 



Where 



