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iact, in a meadow, which I rented pur- 

 posely for the sake of making this, and 

 other experiments. 



P. 114, Mr. B. begins his fifteenth 

 chapter, in which he confines himself to a 

 review of my first publication on watering ; 

 and for the observations which he has 

 there made, I am so far from thinking 

 his apology necessaiy, that I wish, instead 

 of insinuations, he had proceeded to 

 direct animadversions, or open contra- 

 dictions, where he thought me erroneous. 

 This appears to me, the mode best cal- 

 culated to bring forward and establish 

 the truth ; which, on all occasions, great 

 or small, is too valuable to be sacrificed to 

 the complaisance of scribblers. 



In my Treatise which was published ia 

 the year 1789, desirous of shewing, what 



I still 



