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tv, but be Cure eo make it lb wide, as thou maift goe 

 to the bottom of.it* which mutt be To low as any 



:moUkire lteth, which moil, hires ufually lieth 'under 

 the upper and fecend i warth of the Earth, in Tome 

 • Caravel or Sand, or elfe, where fome greater Stones 

 are mixed with Clay, under which thou mutt goe 

 h lit one Spades' graft deep, at the leaih Yea, fop- 

 pole the corruption chat feeds and nouriibeth the 

 Ruth or Flag, ibould be a yard, or four foot deep, 

 to the bottom of it, thou rr.ua- goe, if ever thou 

 wile dram it topurpofe, or make the utmoit advan- 

 tage of either floating or draining, without which, 

 thy Water cannot have its kind el y operation : The 

 "•truth is, otherwife the benefit might happen to be 

 »no greater then the Patients, who incurr u a Droplie 

 in his cure from a Fever \ whereas by this means 

 : there is a double benefit, the fifft thereof comes 

 by the commodity of watering, thefecond, by the 

 -draining Trenches neceflarily annexed thereunto: 

 And whereas the aforefaid Author commends water- 

 ing or floating as an help to boggy ■> rufhy, quagmiry 

 •Land, I fuppofemo benefit, but hurt would arife 

 thereby to huh Lands, if thefe dreining Trenches 

 did not open the paffoges of the obftru&ed Springs 

 ■original caufes o'l the i og or Ruibinefs, as well as 

 let out the Water "newly introduced by the float- 

 ing. 



The time of the operation for this improvement-,' 

 muft be when the (aftfi is all on the ground, for 

 eife the foil . w ill ihm it thar comes along with the 

 Flood : Often watering is good, but to keep it loo£ 

 in a place, breeds che Rufh. }}y this very Kusban- 

 dry, Mr. Blltb brings precedents of improvement 

 of Land, from Eighteen pence, to Thirty SMllmgs 



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