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spen hundreds of acres, }n the old mea- 

 cjow?, under sheets of nuining-^vater, 

 never pesceptibly varjang half jui iucjb 

 in depth. 



P. 235, ^Ir. ]VJ. says, " jMr. Bakewell 

 " studied the art df watering, in the prin- 

 " cipal scene of business, the West of Eng- 

 " land, under IMr. Boswell." 



Tliat " the West of England is the 

 " principal scene of business" in this way, 

 1 will not allow ; till Mr. Marshall has 

 .produced a specimen of greater fertility, 

 rising from the Dorsetshire method of 

 watering, than that which I have given as 

 the effect of my favourite mode. 



A gentleman of Yorkshire, who visited 

 Mr. BosWELfc's place of residence pur- 



H posely 



