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every affiftance itfelf, but affording it to other lands, 

 which require it. And I do not think it would be too 

 much to ftate, that for every acre of watered meadow 

 half an acre of other ground might be kept in heart ; 

 which, if this practice was as general as it fhould be, 

 would in the whole amount to an advantage not eafily 

 calculated. 



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