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Not confiding implicitly in what writem 

 have said in favour of this or that system 

 of irrigation, he has taken the most 

 effectual method of ascertaining which 

 is really worthy of a preference. This 

 gentleman, Mr. Pearce, who resides at 

 Chapel-Brampton, about four miles from 

 tlie town of Northampton, on the Lei- 

 cester road, a situation as central and as 

 eligible, perhaps, as could have been se- 

 lected, in order to give publicity to an 

 agricultural improvement, has made a con- 

 siderable alteration in the common form 

 of the master-feeder and master-drain of 

 this kind of meadows, which I shall have 

 occasion to particularize by-and-bye, and 

 which, in some situations, I think a real 

 improvement ; and he has brought into 

 actual competition the two methods of 

 Floating, which are most in use with us, 



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