302 FORM NEW WATERED-MEADS. , [MAY. 



any conception of before he took the level. Mr. 

 Bake well lent his irrigator to a friend, in order to 

 /tain whether he could water the church- 

 iow ; and on the level being taken, it proved 

 that the water might be carried over the church- 

 steeple, had the land been high enough to receive 

 it. And at Euston, 'the seat of his Grace the 

 Duke of Grafton, it having been a question in 

 conversation, whether such and such lands could 

 be watered, I took the levels for above five miles 

 .>m Sappiston Mill, and found that the sand fox 

 covers, on pretty high hills near the Hall, might 

 be converted to water-meadows. 



llth, When the levels are taken, in examining- 

 all the lands below them, the main point (in 

 which errors are perpetually made) is to determine 

 where to begin. If there be water sufficient, all 

 should certainly be done ; but, supposing a choice 

 pessary to make, whether from insufficiency of 

 water to do the whole, or from any other can 

 then the operator must exercise his judgment ; 

 and in making his estimation, he is to attend to the 

 follow 



1. The cxpence of digging his grand carriers on 

 the taken, which should be large enough 



to take th< -l ream on either side the vale at 



pleasure ; but if the lands on one side are more 



-an on the other, let that 



carrier be executed first. If the most favourable 

 land to work upon on such side, be at a great dis- 

 tance from the prise n* original spot where 

 s water is first taken, and there be not water for 



the 



