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So. I have heard of another fort of Roll, of a large diameter, 

 and weighty, fet the whole length with edged plates of Heel, pro- 

 minent from the body of the Roll about an inch and half; thus 

 contrived for the quicker cutting of turf, which drawn firft one 

 way, and crofs again at right angles, cuts the turf into fquares, in 

 bignefs proportionable to the diftanceof the edged plates on the 

 Roll, requiring no farther trouble afterward, then to be pared 

 off the ground with a turfing Spade, which feems to promife well 

 for the cutting out of Trenches, Drains, (yc. But this I have not 

 feen, nor has it that I know of, been yet experimented by the in- 

 genious Inventor : However, I thought fit to offer it to the confi- 

 deration of Improvers, and the rather becaufe it affords me a 

 fmooth tranfition from the confederation of the Arable, to the 

 Meddow and Pa/lure Lands. 



8 1 . For the Meddow grounds of this County, as they are numer- 

 ous, fo they are fertile beyond zWpreference, for they need no 0- 

 ther compos! to be laid on them, than what the Floods fpontaneoufly 

 give them, and therefore the Reader muft not expert any methods 

 or rules concerning that affair here : Nor concerning the remedies 

 of annoyances, fuch as Sour-grafs, Moffes, Rufies, Sedges, (src for 

 I find none of our meddows much troubled with them. As for 

 their Vp- lands, when they prepare them for grafs, they make them 

 as rich as they can with their molt fuitabkyoi/j-, and lay thenl alfo 

 dry to keep them from Rufies and Sedges ; if any thing boggy, 

 they ufually trench them ; but that proves not furficient, for 

 the trenches of boggy grounds will fwell, and fill up of them* 

 felvcs. 



82. To prevent which inconveniency, I know an ingenious 

 Husbandman, that having dug his trenches about a yard deep and 

 two foot over, firft laid at the bottom green Blackthorn bullies, 

 and on them a flratum of large round ftones, or at leaft fuch as 

 would not lie clofe ; and over them again, another flratum of Black: 

 thorn, and upon themy?;w, to keep the dirt from falling in be* 

 tween, and filling them up : by which means he kept his trench 

 open, and procured fo conftant and durable a drain, that the land 

 is fince funk a foot or 1 8 inches, and become firm enough to fup- 

 port carriages. 



83. As for the Graffes fown in this County, I have little more 

 to add concerning them, but what was faid before in the Chapter 



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