a6* MINUTES JUVE 



1 14. Topped in wet, and which was to be immediately 

 HVsBAND trodden with the plow and harrow-horfes. I 

 could not, however, convince him of his 

 error; and, hoping that it might hereafter be of 

 fome ufe, as well as to prevent a clamour, I 

 this morning went and fet him out fome alders 

 (juft broken into leaf !) and went to fee his 

 operations ; which are in fome forwardnefs. 

 The clofe is nearly a fquare of ten acres ; 

 lying with a mpft defirable gentle defcent ; 

 and the little quantity of water which flood 

 upon it was towards the bottom of the piece ; 

 in the place where the water-furrow is ufually 

 jnade; but where he is making a trench for 

 a fub-drain ! 



The foil is a ftrongiih fendy loam ; lying on 



g ^ iL a perfectly found abforbent brick earth ; but 



PROCESS xvhich, from three or four months continual 



rain, had become fatiated : and all that could 



be poffibly wanted, at prefent, was a furface> 



drain to carry off the fuperfluous water. 



His fon, who I found was a principal in 

 thebufmefs, though defervedly efteemed one of 

 the be{l huibandmen of his years in the county, 

 went with us. He feemed to think that 

 the water might have been got off, but then 

 how were they to have plowed and harrowed 



without 



