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which spread, they arc attended so universally with 

 a verdure, from the grasses getting the better of the 

 heath, owing simply to the water, as shews the ad- 

 vantage in the clearest manner. I am confident 

 that, with a little attention, out of 20 or 30,000 

 acres on a range of mountains I have viewed in Ire- 

 land, water might be thrown over three parts in. 

 lour. The declivities through which the streams 

 run are considerable, and extensive traces of land 

 slope off on either side, so that by obstructing 

 those streams, by piling torrent stones across them 

 at various heights, and drawing small channels in 

 the mountain sides, just above such obstructions, 

 to receive the water, this most advantageous work 

 might be done at small expence, and a single ex- 

 periment of it would presently shew the prodigious 

 advantage of the practice. 



In case these papers should come into the hands ot 

 any possessors of mountain tracts, willing to try it. but 

 not acquainted with the proper mode of executing 

 the work, I shall here offer a few directions, not by 

 way of going minutely into the whole business, 

 but in order to put every man in such a train as to 

 enable him by practice to instruct himself in the 

 rest, and to carry it further than many books on the 

 subject will teach. 



The principle upon which he is to proceed, is to 

 throw as much water as possible over the sides of 

 the mountain, and as equally as possible ; and in 

 doing this to guard against two circumstances : 

 iii-st, its remaining in any spots ; and, secondly, his 

 works being blown up by sudden floods, frcm 



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