lieve, could you poflibly light of the very place 

 where the Spring naturally lieth, you need but open 

 that very place to your Q^ick-Spring, and give it a 

 clear vent, and certainly your Bog would decay ; by 

 reafon whereof, it hath fo corrupted and fwoln the 

 earth,as a Dropfie doth Mans Boay;for if you obferve 

 the mould, it is very light and hollow, and three 

 foot fquare thereof, is not above the weight of one 

 follid foot of natural Earth, Clay, or Land, whereby 

 I conceive, that how much foever this mould is for- 

 ced from the natural weight or hardnefs of folid 

 Earth or Clay, fo much it is corrupted, fwoln, or in- 

 creafed and blown up, and fo much it mutt be taken 

 down,or let forth,before ever it be reduced ; I there- 

 fore preu:iibe this direction: Go to the bottom of the 

 Bog, and there make a Trench in the found ground, 

 or elfe in fome old Ditch, fo lo v as you verily con- 

 ceive your felf affuredly under the level of the 

 Spring or fpewing water, and then carry up your 

 Trench into your Bog ftraight through the middle 

 of it, one foot under that Spring or fpewing water, 

 upon your level, unlefs it rife higher ; as many times 

 the Water or Spring rifeth, as the Land rifeth, and 

 fomedmes lieth very level unto the head of the Bog, 

 unto whuh you muft carry your Drain, or within 

 two or three yards of the very head of it, and then 

 flrike another Trench overthvvart the very head both 

 ways, from that middle Trench, as far as your Bog 

 goeth, all along to the very end of it, flill continu- 

 ing one foot at leaft under the fame, and poflibly this 

 may work a ({range change in the ground of it felf, 

 without any more Trenching. 

 Or thus you may work it fomew hac a more certain 

 way, but more charggable, (wx,.) After you have 



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