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SL slight sketch of in plate 2, though more! 

 simple, and far less expensive, is equally 

 strong with that which he has taken up 

 fifteen pages in describing. 



In the direction which I gave for 

 watering in the month of February, I 

 mentioned the danger to be appre- 

 hended from the poisonous effects of 

 scum, and the destructive severity of a 

 frosty night, and pointed out the usual 

 and skilful method of the Glouces- 

 tershire Floaters to avoid the injury 

 from either quarter ; which was to take 

 the water off in the day, and to turn 

 it over again at night. This direction 

 Mr. B. seems to think not only extraor- 

 dinary and unnecessary, but, for several 

 reasons impracticable. " Taking the wa- 

 ** ter off," says he, p. 117, " and turn- 

 '* ing it over at night in frosty weather, 



*' where 



