AGRICULTURE WITH CHEMISTRY. 



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DRAINAGE OF THE FENS. 



'The loss sustained by individuals and by the public, 

 from the late breaking of the banks, and consequent 

 inundation of the cultivated fens in Cambridgeshire and 

 other Counties, nece-sarily calls the attention of the pro- 

 prietors of fen estates, and the Legislature of this coun- 

 try, to a more judicious and complete system of general 

 drainage of that great level. The late destrucSlion of the 

 banks, and loss sustained, may probably be the means of 

 uniting, in one natural and judicious j^lan for their mutual 

 advantage, the hitherto distinift and opposite interests of 

 individuals and of neighbouring communities. This is 

 most likely to be accomplished by adopting the method 

 of drainage recommended in the Appendix to the very 

 able Report of the Agricultural Survey of the County of 

 Cambricl;;c ; by whi( h plan there is reason to believe that 

 the fens might be wholly, instead of being partially, 

 drained : an objed of too great miportance to be over- 

 looked, or to be thwarted by the confined or mistaken 

 plans of any class of men, or the interested motives of 



any 



