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when compared to the great benefits to be derived, 

 and efpecially, when the work is executed in a good- 

 manner. 



Farming focieties, no doubt, will always encourage 

 this fpecies of improvement. 



Mr. Stewart, of Stranorlan, in the county of Done- 

 gal, has fet a good example on foot, with refpcft to 

 draining and irrigation. He brought over from Staf- 

 fordfhire a perfon, who has given a ftrong fpecimen 

 of the good effefts of irrigation, and, of courfe, has 

 let a good example to others. This perfon is now 

 (1802) actually employed, at fo much a year, by the 

 Rapkoe farmers' foclrty. Indeed I may date the com- 

 mencement of irrigation, done in a workman-like man- 

 ner, from Stranorlan, in the year 1800, which was the 

 commencement of Mr. Stewart's operations. 



I am very far from being againft importing perfons 

 from England and Scotland, for the purpofe of water- 

 ing, or any other improvement j but, upon the othe* 

 hand, in fome particular inftances, I approve of it. In 

 general, however, I apprehend, that this country would 

 reap more folid advantage, and that in a (hortcr time, 

 by fending perfons to thofe parts, and particularly to 

 the Lothians of the latter. 



The fubjeft in queftion admits of fo many modes of 

 performing it, that it would take up a volume to do it 

 any degree of juftice, and, after all, much would re- 

 main to be done. There is fcarcely a fpot, which does 



not 



