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in this way ; and the improvement, they 

 will find, will be proportionally large. 

 For the water of every copious and rapid 

 stream is loaded with manure of the most 

 fertilizing quality ; and with this water, 

 it is possible to make land almost as rich 

 as you please, whatever be the nature of 

 the soil, or of the subsoil, even without 

 attending so nicely to system as you neces-» 

 sarily must, when clear spring water is 

 used ; and by the contents of this turbid 

 water, an entirely new soil is given to the 

 land in the course of a few years. 



And if many large rivers are rendered 

 manageable by the expensive process of 

 embankments, wears, pudling, &c, merely 

 to work corn-mills, why should not the 

 same means be used to obtain a greater 

 object? for I am confident, that in many 



situations, 



