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Improvements by embanking and over- 

 flowing with water, according to the plans 

 here fiiggefted, will, perhaps, apply, with 

 fome expence, to every fpot in Great Bri- 

 tain, and every country in the world. As, 

 even in thofe places where they do not poflefs 

 a running water, the rain water, during 

 winter might be collected, either upon the 

 farm, or at a diftance from it, and condudl- 

 ed wherever it might be required ; and the 

 rain water coming off plowed lands is, at 

 leaft, as rich as that derived from rivers or 

 Iprings. 



To conclude, I ihall add, as an additional 

 encouragement to the practice of this mode 

 of improvement, that corn, and other vege- 

 tables raifed by flooding, mufl be more 

 wholefome than thofe which are produced 

 by any other fpecies of manure. And many 

 formers that have praftifed it, have found it 

 more beneficial than any other mode, 



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