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trifling expence of twenty (hillings an acre, pro- 65. 



perly laid out in the coiirfe of next fummer, it MEADOWS. 

 would, in two or three years time, be worth 

 from twelve to fifteen (hillings an acre. 



I will give an eftimate of the expence, to 

 ihew the real improvement which the mea- 

 dow-lands of Norfolk are capable of. 



This meadow' is a parallelogram lying on a 

 flat, and contains five acres, two roods, feven 

 perches. 



A rivulet runs on one fide of it, upon a bed 

 of gravel, and fiveor fix feet below the furface 

 of the meadow. Acrofs the meadow, perpen- 

 dicular to the rivulet, are two drains, grownup 

 with haflbcks, and trod in by caftle ; and round 

 it is a watery ditch, alib full of ^ afs and mud. 



There are about eighty flatute i ds of ditch- 

 ing, and about forty ftatute rods oK 1 raining. 

 The ditches might be fcoured for V (hilling, 

 the drains be opened for fixpence, the long 

 rod. 



80 flatute is about fixty-three long 



rods, at u. - 3 3 o 



40 ditto, about thirty-one, at 6d. 0156 



3 18 6 



But the drains could not be opened level 



with the rivulet for that money j nor could 



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