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neighbourhood of the well-known stream 

 of Bibury, where he had the satisfaction 

 of finding a large meadow already wa- 

 tered; but he soon found, likewise, that 

 its grass, and the hay made from it, were 

 by no means so nutritious as he had elsjg- 

 where seen them. Certain of the im- 

 provement that might be made, from {his. 

 copious stream, at least in the quality of 

 the grass, he proceeded to make the fol- 

 lowing amendments;— wherever he found 

 a wide bed, he divided it into tw^ ; h? 

 increased the width of his conductor, ia 

 order to admit more water, and sunk the 

 bottom of it as low as the bottom of the 

 stream, to draw in the more mud, which 

 he took care frequently to disturb, with 

 iron-rakes, made for the purpose ; and b;^ 

 these means, he informed me, he improved 

 the meadoAV to twice it^ former value.. Kot 

 content with this, he contrived, the year 



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