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the water does not flow an inch deep, you 

 do not use as much water as might be 

 effectually strained or sifted by the grass, 

 and of course do not collect as much muci- 

 lage as might be collected, nor give a 

 complete shelter to the land. If you use 

 much more than an inch depth, and con- 

 tinue it for several weeks, you destroy your 

 best grasses, which will not bear to be en- 

 tirely under water for many weeks in suc- 

 cession : and if any of the works are cut 

 entirely upon a dead level, a certain part 

 of the water will be kept in a stagnant state, 

 depositing its sediment in the ditches, more 

 than on the suriace of the meadow, and 

 soaking into, and chilling the land. If, 

 however, you can so form your meadow 

 as to use the above quantity of water, on 

 the whole, or a part of the land, and each 

 part has a regular descent; the meadow 



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