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they say, " the latter part of which is not 

 ** very intelligible, we might conclude, 

 " that Mr. Boswell prefers clear, to mud- 

 " dy-water, for overflowing meadows*!* 



Mr. Boswell certainly does not intend 

 to say so much as is here intimated. By 

 " contrary effects," he cannot mean to 

 say, that the converse of my whole pro- 

 position is true. He "must only wish to 

 say, that he knows an instance of a 

 meadow, floated by clear-water, produc- 

 ing crops of a good quality, and having 

 its land improved by this w^ater. This 

 is undoubtedly saying a great deal too 

 much, especially when opposed to the 

 effects of muddy- water; for (to say no- 

 thing of the inequality of the crops, if wa- 

 tering were entirely to cease, Mr. B. would 

 find the staple of his land neither stronger 

 nor richer than it was, when this clear- 

 water 



