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fame foil ; and fecondly, as cut-out turf-bogs from their 

 fituation have more capability of having the water 

 turned upon them, than almofl any other foil, it is ne- 

 cefTary to be known how much they are, when laid 

 down to grafs, benefited by water. Gravelly foils are 

 affecTed by irrigation, with a quicknefs only to be cre- 

 dited by thofe who have feen it, and clay alfo, though 

 flower in {hewing the advantage of it, acknowledges 

 its fertilizing qualities. In faft there are hardly any 

 waters, except thofe impregnated with fome mineral 

 definitive to vegetation, that may not be profitably 

 employed, upon almofl every variety of ground, un- 

 lefs from grofs mifmanagement ; an inflance of which 

 lately occurred in this county, where a perfon being 

 employed at a considerable expenfe to water a piece of 

 ground, to facilitate the levelling, and to banifh the 

 rufhes, gave the ground a complete burning, which I 

 fuppofe fo reduced the quantity of vegetable mold, as 

 to render it unfit for the purpofes of agriculture : the 

 foil was a -fandy loam upon a clay. My reafon for 

 fuppofing, that the operation of burning fpoiled it, is 

 this ; I faw the ground before it was broken up, but 

 after the water was partially thrown over it ; at that 

 time there was a moft luxuriant growth upon every 

 place where the water reached, even amongfl the 

 rufhes, which certainly fhewed that the ground agreed 

 with irrigation, and mufl have been difqualified by the 

 Burning, previous to the fecond watering. The only 



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