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peculiarly well circumstanced to write 

 tipon the subject of Irrigation, provided 

 he had possessed a little more experience 

 to have enabled him to discover the whole 

 truth, and a little more disinterestedness 

 to give him free liberty to speak it. As 

 engineer, or rather drainer of land, and 

 mineralogist, I believe Mr. Smith is in- 

 ferior to no man ; but as a geneml instruc- 

 tor in the art of Floating, I venture to 

 say, that he is very much surpassed by 

 those veiy men whose knowledge he so 

 repeatedly reprobates, and whose works 

 he openly calumniates, and yet condes- 

 cends to copy. For the Prisley Bog mea- 

 dows, which, as a xvliole, are perhaps the 

 most complete specimen of the art in the 

 kingdom, and worthy of their late and 

 of their present proprietor, are in fact 

 only a faithful imitation, or a somewhat 

 flattering likeness, of the raeado-ws which 



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