i8 MINUTES MAY 



103. all (landing : indeed, ditches raifed in this 

 manner, cannot readily take effential hurt by 

 beating rains ; for fhould either the foot or 

 the upper part of the facing fhoot, the layer is 

 ftill fafe. 



It is the cuftom here to oblige the ditchers to 

 make good the breaches of the firft year, gra- 

 tis. This, however, if the work was properly 

 done, is this year rather hard upon them. But 

 be this as it may, there needs not a ftronger 

 proof of the frequent mifcarriages of Norfolk 

 ditches than this cuftom. 



104. 



MAY 5. It feems to be a growing pracYice v 

 in this country, to fow furze-feed on the backs, 

 or rather upon the tops, of ditch-banks. 



There is, however, one great evil attends it, 

 when fown upon the top j for, growing quicker 

 than the white-thorn, the furze, in a few 

 years, over-hangs, and fmothers the young 

 hedgeling efpecially if it be neglected to be 

 cut down, or trimmed off, on the face fide : 

 a work which is too often, and, indeed, almoft 

 univerfally neglected. 



But if the feeds be fown upon the back of 

 the bank, this evil is in a great meafure pre- 

 vented; 



