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*' where thei*e dre 300 ^cres ib water 

 *' by ofte sti*eam, appears to be a Very 

 '* extraordinary direction, and ih the 

 " country where this treatise is Written, 

 would be quite impracticable." 



It was shewn in several part^ of iiiy 

 book, that these 300 acres were divided 

 into separate meadows; which lay in 

 Succession, on both sides of a rapid stream. 

 It Was there likewise intimated, that each 

 meadow (whether the whole, or a part of 

 it was watered at one time) quickly threw 

 back the water into the stream, and (hat 

 the proprietors of the lower meadows did 

 not suffer any one of the meadows atove 

 them, to take the whole of the stream, or 

 (as they style it) the whole of the best 

 water; and also, that less water is now 

 required, than in an earlier part of winter. 

 Meadows, therefore, thus situated and 



circumstanced, 



