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grounds, more efpecially, in regard that they reteln 



not the rain-water To well as clay, or Land of a mixt 

 foil : The proper remedy for this defe£, is artificial 

 watering , which tempers the ground moll pro- 

 perly for the improvement of the growth of the mort 

 ufeful Planer, Grain and Grafs : For firft, Water in 

 its own nature and property is a foil, and has an ex- 

 ceeding agreeablencfs with the Bodies of moll Vege- 

 tables, as appears by the experiments of their growth 

 in water onel y. And fecondly, There is a very con- 

 flderable accrewment to dry, frndy, and gravelly 

 Earth, by the fatty foyl and wa{h that is carryed both 

 in Land-floods, and other Water, that having pafled 

 through Cities, Roads, or other places of like na- 

 ture, are drawn over the ground, for the fait, and 

 other the mixt earth, that was carryed in the Flood, 

 being apt to refide to the bottom, is left generally 

 behinde upon the Land ; and the fait diluted in the 

 Water, eahly enters the Turf, and carries with it 

 other Particles thither, v\ hereby the heat of the Sun, 

 (they being in conjunction with the Sand, Gravel, or 

 other Bodies Heterogeneous, and unlike to them- 

 felves) they caufe by their mutual fe^menra ion, as 

 is fuppofed, or fome other way , that temper of 

 ground which is molt fit for rhe growth of all Grain, 

 Grades, and other Vegetables of general ufe. 



For drawing the water over Land, the ufe is, that 

 by the eye or level which iseafily made to help the 

 eye : Firft 7 Difcovery be made where the water 

 may be conveighed over the moll L^nd : Thqn Mr. 

 -SZ/V/jadvifes, to cut out the M after Trench or Wa- 

 ter-courfe, to fuch a bignefs, as may contain all the 

 Land-flood, or at lea ! i, be able to bring ir within 

 the Land inccadefi for this improvement : When the 



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