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were alike superlatively enriching to 

 land ; but I dared not to deal in such 

 deception as, I am sorry to remark, Mr. 

 Smith has used, when he speaks of bog- 

 water as flowing over the Prisley-Bog mea-» 

 dow, which circumstance I shall have 

 occasion to notice more particularly by 

 and bye. 



Page 36, Mr. Smith writes thus :— " I 

 ** have indeed heard of water being used 

 *' to the great benefit of land in Scotland.'* 



I have the satisfaction of being able to 

 inform Mr. Smith, that floated meadows, 

 of considerable extent and value, were 

 formed in Scotland more than twelve 

 years ago. The ingenious Charles 

 Stevens, and his sons, have, for many 

 years, been wholly employed, winter and 

 summer, in this way, in various parts of 



Scotland ; 



