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flooding, came to be univerfally adopted, the 

 great profits would be better felt than can be 

 exprefled. 



There are many ponds made below Edin- 

 burgh for damming the water that comes 

 from the city, where the fediment fubfides* 

 which collects great quantities of rich dung, 

 fome of which is ufed by farmers in the 

 neighbourhood, and fold by others. I have 

 heard of one perfon felling dung collected 

 this way for L. 70 a year. 



Others flooding the fmall meadows in 

 grafs, with the water from the city, which 

 raifes both weighty and early crops, which 

 admit of being cut three or four times each 

 year. This is a very certain and profitable 

 way for thefe perfons, when fituations will 

 admit of it in the neighbourhood of any 

 town ; or when they have water coming from 

 lime or fhell marl. 



The water that comes from the city, if 

 properly conducted, would enrich more than 

 ten times the quantity of foil it does at pre- 



fent. 



It is hard to fay how much might be done 

 this way, both here, and in many other 

 places, having the fame declivity. 



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