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than the lower part, especially where it is 

 made more than five yards wide. Of this, 

 the cattle, when turned into the meadow, 

 will give an incontrovertible proof, by 

 leaving the grass on the lower part un- 

 touched, till that on the upper part, 

 which is always more luxuriant, is en- 

 tirely eaten off. 



P. 31, " The larger the body of water 

 " that can be brought upon very boggy 

 ** land, the better ; its weight and strength 

 " will greatly assist in compressing tlie 

 •' soil/* 



I agree with Mr. Boswell, that it is 

 very advantageous to boggy land, to have 

 a large body of water brought upon it 

 when it is first formed for floating ; for 

 the more strong and rude the current, the 



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