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two feet; on pulling out the inftrument, the water in- 

 flantly followed, and has continued to run until this 

 day; the confequence of which, befides a regular 

 ftream of excellent water, was, that the back-yard be- 

 longing to the houfe where this operation was per- 

 formed, and which, having been cut out of the hill, 

 was ten feet lower than the well, and, previous to the 

 well being funk, never could be kept dry, has from 

 that day loft every appearance of damp, except when it 

 falls from the fky. A very neat method of making 

 open drains I have feen in different places, by floping 

 the edges of the drains, and fowing grafs-feed; but 

 when this is done, the good earth ought always to be 

 kept to cover the under. Stratum, laid bare in forming 

 the declivity. 



SECT. 2. Paring and Burning. 



THE regular fyftem of paring and burning land is 

 only praftifed in the mountainous parts, and in fome 

 few places where moory foil abounds; it is generally 

 performed by putting a fin or feather upon the fock, 

 that the grafly part may alone be cut; when this is 

 done, by ploughing lengthways the furrows are cut 

 acrofs, and put into heaps, which, when fufficiently 

 dry, are burned, fpread, and ploughed into the ground. 

 Excellent crops of grain are procured by this manage- 

 ment, 



