yet, by following the fame plans in minia- 

 ture, very extraordinary crops could be pro- 

 duced, both in Scotland and in England, 

 double of lands not water-fed. 



How many fmall canals could be made in 

 almoft every part of Scotland, and many in 

 England, by the fide of moft rivers, and a- 

 long the fide of hills, for conducting the wa- 

 ter many miles, which might anfwer many 

 good purpofes. 



That this is capable of being reduced to 



practice, we are informed by Volney, in 



page 300 of the firft volume of his travels 



through Egypt and Syria, " That the inha- 



; bitants of Syria, notwithftanding the 



" mountaneous fituation of the country, pro- 



" fited by the water. They condudled it by 



" a thoufand windings along the declivities, 



" and flopt it by forming drains in the val- 



: lies; while in other places they prop up 



1 ground ready to crumble away, by walls 



6 and terrafles. Almoft all thefe mountains 



" thus laboured, prefent the appearance of a 



" flight of flairs, or an amphitheatre, each 



1 ftep of which is a row of vines or mulberry 



1 trees. I have reckoned from an hundred to 



8 an hundred and twenty of thefe gradations 



"on 



