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following, to carry ^ part of the stream 

 through his farniryard, which wa§ con?- 

 stantly filled with a large stock of cattle 

 and pigs, and with this water he floated 

 nearly an acre of this meadoAv. The 

 effect of this last process, I went purposely 

 to see, and found, at the beginning of the 

 month of April, that the ewes and laml>s 

 had been turned into the meadow two 

 4^y^ where they had shewn a nice di&» 

 crimination between the grass upon the^ 

 above acre, and that on the other parts of 

 the meadow : they had eaten the grass, 

 where this foul water had run, to the very 

 toots, ^nd had walked over all the other 

 parts, alnaost without tasting, though the 

 grass was luxuriant and fine, and the land 

 in a very improved state. Thi$ convinced^ 

 me, that: one mouthful of the grass on thtj- 

 former part, was almost as valuable as two 



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