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be regulated with the greatest facility and nicety. 

 To insure the regular and even flow of the sewage 

 when discharged from the carriers, it was necessary 

 to lay out the land with mathematical accuracy; 

 and it has been leveled and formed by the theodolite 

 into rectilinear beds of uniform width of thirty feet, 

 slightly inclining from the centres, along which the 

 sewage is applied. The carriers or open troughs, by 

 which the sewage is conveyed, run along the top 

 of each series of these beds or strikes ; and at the 

 bottom there is in every case a good road, by means 

 of which free access is provided for a horse and cart, 

 or for the steam plow the use of which is in con- 

 templation to every bed and crop. These arrange- 

 ments the carrying out of which involved the re- 

 moval of six hundred trees and a great length of 

 heavy fences, the filling up of a number of ditches and 

 no less than nine ponds, as well as the complete 

 under-draining of the whole farm were mainly ef- 

 fected last year; but it was not until the middle 

 of April, 1870, that Mr. Hope received any of this 

 sewage from the town of Romford, and not until 

 the following month that he obtained both the day 

 and night supply. Satisfactory, therefore, as have 

 been the results of the present season's operations, 

 they have been obtained under disadvantageous cir- 

 cumstances, and cannot be regarded as affording 

 complete evidence of the benefits which may be de- 

 rived from the application of sewage to even a poor 

 and thin soil, which had already ruined more than 



