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rich manure that are suspended in its 

 waters, and are thereby irrecoverably- 

 carried into the ocean, I cannot help feel- 

 ing tliis as a momentous loss to the com- 

 munity. 



I do not, however, here pretend to re- 

 ject, or wish to depreciate the use of small 

 rivulets, or spring water in floating; for 

 in many instances, where skilfully ma- 

 naged, and where a rapid descent can be 

 obtained, and upon good land, such water 

 will be found highU^ beneficial, particu- 

 larly that which has passed through strata 

 of chalk. I only mean to say, that the 

 effects of such water cannot be set in com- 

 petition with those arising from the water 

 of large streams ; and that nothing very 

 great, or very valuable, can be accom- 

 plished in this, or any other agricultural 



process. 



