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more mud, sand, or gravel, w'lU be car^ 

 ried upon the meadow. Matter of this 

 kind, however coarse it may be, will 

 greatly improve the land, by giving it 

 that stability and soundness which are so 

 peculiarly requisite to a loose boggy sur- 

 face. I cannot however conceive that 

 boggy land, though Mr. B. has frequently 

 repeated it, can be compressed by a sheet 

 of water; for, to me, it always appears 

 to be dilated by water, as a sponge Ls ; 

 and every person who has drained a bog, 

 lias found, that it will sink considerably 

 when the water, which generated it, has 

 been drawn from it. 



P. 54, Mr. B., speaking of the Dorset- 

 shire Watermen, says, " Besides, though 

 " many workmen may be met with ex- 



*' ceeding clever in the execution, and 



