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kitchen or buttery was fo fituated, that a rivulet 

 ran under it, and had the water near at hand. 



NOT only people of fortune, but even others 

 that had fome pofleffions, commonly had fifli 

 ponds in the country near their houfes. They 

 always took care that frefh water might run into 

 their ponds, which is very falutary for the fifh : 

 for that purpofe the ponds were placed near a 

 fpring on a hill. 



Nov. 1 3th. I SAW, in feveral parts of this 

 province, a ready method of getting plenty of 

 grafs to grow in the meadows. Here muft be 

 remembered what I have before mentioned about 

 the fprings, which are fometimes found on the 

 fides of hills, and fometimes in vallies. The 

 meadows lie commonly in the vallies between 

 the hills : if they are too fwampy and wet, the 

 water is carried off by feveral ditches. But the 

 fummer in Pcnfyfoania is very hot ; and the fun 

 often burns the grafs fo much, that it dries up 

 entirely. The huuSandmen therefore have been 

 very attentive to prevent this in their meadows : 

 to that purpofe they look for all the fprings in 

 the neighbourhood of a meadow; and as the ri- 

 vulets flowed before by the fhorteft way into the 

 vallies, they raife the water, as much as poflible 

 and neceflary, to the higher part of the meadow, 

 and make feveral narrow channels from the 

 brook, down into the plain, fo that it is entirely 

 watered by it. When there are fome deeper 

 places, they frequently lay wooden gutters acrofs 

 them, through which the water flows to the 

 other fide; and from thence it is again, by very 

 narrow channels, carried to all the places 

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