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" was made by my direction, anjio 1665, 

 ** at Wilton, in Wiltshire, carrying water 

 " in good quantity above twenty foot 

 " high." 



Page 27, Mr. Smith says, " having suc- 

 *' ceeded in the attempt to make good 

 " water-meadows, upon soils which have 

 " been deemed unfit for the purpose, and 

 " floated them with water that was equally 

 *' condemned in point of quality." 



I do not know any experienced person 

 that has deemed the soil of a bog, nor 

 any other species of soil, " unfit for the 

 *' purpose of irrigation." Boggy soil was 

 deemed very fit for this purpose by Blith 

 in 1653, and has, I believe, been so deemed 

 ever since, by every person who has paid 

 due attention to the subject. Some of 

 the best meadows in Gloucestershire are 



formed 



