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bent bottom in watering ; but merely be- 

 cause such a sub-soil is soonest free from 

 the chilUng effects of soaking water. I 

 cannot think it necessary or favourable 

 to vegetation, that the land under this 

 process should, during the winter months, 

 imbibe even one drop of water more than 

 upland imbibes; and I am persuaded, 

 that if a floated meadow could receive its 

 usual manure and shelter, without the 

 water penetrating de^er than the surface, 

 that the herbage would be more valuable 

 than it is at present. 



. Let the reader turn his eyes to the 

 meadows in the immediate vicinity of 

 London, which are dunged every year, 

 and he will find the cix)ps of those mea- 

 dows equally early, equally luxuriant, and 

 probably more wutritive than those of the 



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