MAY.] FORM NEW WATERED-MEADS. 



they discovered that he drew out all his works 

 .without the assistance of SL spirit-level,, they ought 

 to have dismissed him. Not that such a fellow 

 cannot make improvements ; no one can well con- 

 trive to bring water on to land without improving 

 it ; bat to pay 4l. or 5l. or perhaps much more, per 

 acre, for using a small quantity of water to , 

 advantage, when the same might be used else- 

 where to the greatest, is, comparatively speaking, 

 throwing money away. If the following observa- 

 tions are carefully attended to, they will, I trust, 

 enable any man to operate for himself in most of 

 the cases that can occur, and with a certain degree 

 of sagacity, in all. 



, The great benefit to be derived from power 

 to take water from a river, or stream, or lake, &c. 

 will much depend on taking the first level from 

 the highest spot on the water to which the opera- 

 tor's property or farm extends. If he is a land- 

 lord, and has several farms on a stream, and some 

 out of lease, others in lease, he must either wait 

 till the leases are expired, or he must purchase of 

 his tenants liberty to run his grand carrier through 

 their farms (the property of the water retained to 

 himself) wherever the level may point out. 



2d, If the stream be any thing considerable, he 

 may probably find water-mills the greatest impedi- 

 ment to his projccl, whether his own, if leased, or 

 belonging to other landlords : he must make him- 

 self thoroughly acquainted with this circumstance, 

 or, after having been at considerable expences, he 



may 



