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banks, the good foil or furface of the parts, on which 

 they were intended to be laid, was taken off, and re- 

 ferved for a top-dreffing for the whole, when brought 

 to the intended fliape. This precaution was the more 

 neceflary, fince thofe banks were principally compofed 

 of barren fands, and of themfelves not capable of fup- 

 porting any agreeable verdure. 



In moft cafes the grounds lie very flat behind the 

 banks to a confiderable extent, what in thefe part* arc 

 termed holmy lands. Thofe flats or holmes being na- 

 turally extremely fertile, the covering of them with the 

 barren banks was of courfe given up; therefore the 

 banen fluff was in general caft into the river, IT 

 buried in fome adjacent pits or hollows. 

 ;J la order to render the foil wholefome, where the 

 flats, and, in fome places, concaves prevailed, and 

 efpecially when fituated at a confiderable diftance from 

 the river, recourfe was had to another expedient, bo- 

 lides that of cutting away the banks, and floping them 

 down to the water at low-water-mark ; fince, in fuch 

 cafes, the cafting of the bank, &c. could only be or uk\ 

 fo far as that operation could be applied, to caufc th> 

 water to run off freely when the bed of the river fub- 

 fided, and alfo to prevent the accumulation of the land. 

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