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the rotting of the roots of the grass, and 

 to hinder the generating of that scum 

 which would soon destroy every blade ; 

 and in the second instance, the water is 

 thrown over again, to collect inud, and to 

 shelter the land. 



REVIEW 



OF 



Mr. MarshalVs Account of 

 Irrigation* 



Mr. Marshall, in his Rural Economy of 

 the Midland Counties, in describing 

 watered meadows, vol. 1. page 226, says, 

 ** The warmth communicated by running 

 " water to the grass it flows over, is the 



best 



