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is comniunicatcd to the land by the run- 

 ning water, and wliich remains with it as 

 a permanent power after the water is 

 withdrawn* ... . 



P. 228, Mr. M. says, " It being im- 

 " possible in practice, to render the sheet 

 " of water throughout of a uniform depth 

 " or thickness." 



If Mr. ]M. when he visited and resided 

 sometime in Gloucestershire, for the pur- 

 pose of investigating the husbandry of 

 that part of the kingdom, had seen the 

 floated meadows in the vicinity of Ciren- 

 cester, (and it is truly surprising to me, 

 that he could reside twelve months so 

 near them, without either seeing them, or 

 hearing of them) he would not have made 

 the above remark, for he would there have 



seen 



