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p. 52, to a " refreshing of the land with 

 " water." 



These two last quotations, it will be 

 observed, contradict each other; for in 

 the fu^t instance, the land is made dry to 

 encoura.^e the growth of the grass, and in 

 the second, it is made v. et for the same 

 purpose : but I have not introduced them 

 from the captious motive of exliibiting an 

 inconsistency in the words of a superior 

 agricultural writer, but, because I think 

 they may materially atfect the practice : 

 for, although the process of Avatering has 

 that alteniacy which Mr. D. has justly 

 remarked, yet this change from w et to 

 dry, and from dry to wet, is not made, I 

 presume to say, for those reasons assigned 

 by Mr. Davis. In the former case, the 

 land is made dr^^ to give it air, to present 



the 



