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Mr. Bosw ell's Treatise on watering 

 3Ieadows, 



Mr. Boswell, p. 6, commences with, and 

 founds the chief structure of his Treatise 

 ujx)n, what appears to me, a false prin- 

 ciple, the attributing the excellence of 

 floating, more to the nature of the land 

 floated, than to the quality of the water 

 used. In the scale of productiveness, he 

 gives the precedence to gravelly, or «andy 

 soils ; in the second rank he places boggy 

 and rushy-land; and in the last class, 

 strong, cold, clay-land. For a few years, 

 I grant, the difference of soil may have a 

 considerable effect ; but after a continuance 



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