278 MINUTES JUNE 



1 1 8. Thefe water- fences, running in all directions, 



YARMOUTH and being of various widths, makes it probable 



\IAHSHFS 



that the principal part of them were the fmaller 

 furrows, or partial drains, which carried off 

 .the rains, back-water, &c. in a ftate of nature. 



The inclofures, or " marfhes," run from 

 ten or fifteen to forty or fifty acres each ; be- 

 long to a variety of owners ; and are rented 

 by a ftill greater pumber of occupiers ; almoft 

 every farmer, within fifteen or even twenty 

 miles, having his marfh. 



The herbage of thefe marfhes is various, even 

 in the fameinclofure : for the individual marines 

 are far from being level; they being more or lefs 

 fcooped out into hollows ; where the water 

 lodges a conliderable time after the higher 

 parts are dry. On thefe grow a rich luxuriant 

 herbage, compofed of the choicefl meadow- 

 graffes ; while on the moifter parts grows a 

 long wiry kind of grafs, which I think the 

 marfhmen call "flat;" and which the cattle 

 are very fond of. But none of the grafles be- 

 ing yet in blow (the poa annua exceptedj and 

 the aquatic grafs not having yet formed its fruit- 

 {talk (the feafon being unufually backward), 

 I could not afcertain the fpecies. 



Mar/b-worms. The Marfhes are infefted by 

 a grub, which lafl year deilroyed many acres of 



grafs f 



