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them, to make the moft they can of every circumftance, 

 that may naturally occur in their refpeclive diftrifts, 

 for the improvement of their lands. 



Since timber is at prefent fo extravagantly high, and 

 the profpeft of a fupply of it, for domeftic purpofes, fo 

 very remote, every advantage ftiould be taken, to ac- 

 commodate the public with the kind of wood, that 

 naturally offers in almoft every bog in the county, 

 enough, I dare fay, to fupply the country for ages ; 

 but the extreme difficulty of being able to get at it, 

 when raifed, renders it, in many cafes, dearer than 

 foreign timber, when all the trouble attending it is 

 confidered. . .^ 



Among the various means of improvement, none 

 appears more effectual than watering or irrigating land, 

 when at all practicable. It is, indeed, a very pleating 

 reflexion to find, what rapid ftrides this ufeful im- 

 provement is making of late. But, as might be ex- 

 pefted, the people in general are ignorant, both of the- 

 proper application, and execution of the work', but, 

 no doubt, they will foon fall into meafures fo nearly 

 connected with their real interefts, and where fo little 

 {peculation is neceflary to remove every doubt of ha- 

 zard or rifque. It is the genius of the people of thefe 

 parts, to embrace immediately any improvement, in 

 which a fpeedy return of gain is the prevailing objeft ; 

 among which the fubjeft under confideration is one 

 of the utmoil importance, fince the expence is nothing, 



when 



