mentary state. These misconceptions, 

 therefore, must still prove a powerful 

 obstacle to the growth of this very valu- 

 able branch of husbandry. I have fre- 

 quently been recjuested by gentlemen in 

 distant parts of the kingdom, to send 

 them men well acquainted with the art 

 -(from South Cerney, a village in Glouces- 

 tershire, which has long been, and still 

 continues, a very valuable nursery for 

 persons of this description) to fleat large 

 tracts of land, where, when the floater 

 has arrived, he has found the stream that 

 was to accomplish all this, diminutive 

 enough, according to his own expres- 

 sion, to flow through a pint cup ; of 

 course the work has either not been 

 attempted, or, if the proprietor of the 

 land has been hardy enough to persist in 

 the execution, disappointment to the pos- 

 sessor, 



