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derived from the enriching substances thus brought to it, was the cause of Mr 

 Barker's proceeding. 



462 Mr George Rennie of Phantassie, Mr Robert Brown of Markle, and 

 Mr John Shirreff, then farmer at Captainhead in East- Lothian. 



465 Lincolnshire Report, p. 516. 



464 Marshall's Eastern Department, p. 105. 



465 West Riding Report, p. 164. Lincolnshire Report, p. 315. 



466 Ibid. p. 170. Marshall's Eastern Department, p. 105. 



467 Their depredations might be prevented, by salt strewed on the surface 

 after the crop was sown. 



468 It is not improbable, that the practice of warping may be greatly ex- 

 tended. Perhaps warp might be raised by machinery from the bottom of the 

 estuary, to be brought up by the tide ; and if the water impregnated with it 

 were raised to a higher level, it might be conveyed to a greater distance, and the 

 sediment, kept in a flowing state, would not be deposited, till it was suffered to 

 rest. It might be worth while to convey to the warp itself, when deposited, to a 

 certain distance, on iron railways, or canals, which are so easily made in a flat 

 country ; and which was actually done by the Duke of Bridgewater, to a con- 

 siderable extent, on his celebrated canal. It is an excellent dressing for gar- 

 den -ground, and is said to be an antidote to the rust or mildew. Dumfries- 

 shire Report, Appendix, 531. 



469 Marshall's Eastern Department, p. 115. 



470 In Chapter V. the means of promoting such undertakings, by public en- 

 couragement, shall be explained* It is a most unfortunate circumstance, that 

 there should be such a prejudice against the granting of public encouragement 

 to promote agricultural improvements. Were such improvements properly at- 

 tended to by the Government of the country, no individual in it need to remain 

 unemployed. 



471 Edinburgh Review for March 1817, p. 44, 45. Torricelli, the cele- 

 brated inventor of the barometer, was born anno 1608, and died anno 1647. 

 There is a good account of this Italian process, in the travels of W. A. Cadell, 

 Esq. in the years 1817, &c. See also the Scottish Farmer's Magazine, publish- 

 ed in May 1820, p. 160. It appears, that by the process Colmctta, the ground 

 is rendered unproductive for seven or eight years ; but by the English system of 

 warjnng, it will produce clover immediately after the process is completed. 



472 Johnston's Chapter on Embankments, in the General Report of Scot- 

 land, vol. ii. p 615. 



473 Mr Smith, the mineral surveyor, has effected this on the coast of Suffolk, 

 with much ability. Mr Maddock's great embankment on the coast of Wales 

 seems to be of the same description. Communications to the Board of Agricul- 

 ture, vol. vi. p. 150. 



474 Beatson's Essay on Embankments ; Communications to the Board of 

 Agriculture, vol. ii. p. 244. 



475 Statistical Account of Scotland, vol. xviii. p. 220. Stirlingshire Report, 

 p. 280. 



476 In the Gloucestershire Report, p. 264, there is an account of a valuable 

 embankment and drainage, by which 1 300 acres of land are improved, where 

 the surface of the river is above that of the adjoining meadows. 



477 Berkshire Report, p. 256. 



478 This actually happened at Wester Fintray, in Aberdeenshire, where se- 

 veral hundred quarters of corn were carried off, by a sudden flood, in 1 768. 

 The farm has since been embanked. 



479 Johnston's Chapter on Embankments, General Report of Scotland, 

 vol. ii. p. 626. 



480 The plans of executing Embankments are fully explained in Beatson's 

 Essay on that subject, Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. ii. 

 p. 231 ; and in Johnston's Chapter on Embankments, in the General Report 

 of Scotland, vol. ii. p. 615. 



