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Scotland; and Mr. Ferguson, Member 

 for Aberdeenshire, can bear ample testi- 

 mony of the extensive improvements 

 which have been made upon his estates by 

 Bolton, another Gloucestershire floater. 



Mr. Smith's favourite meadow, near 

 Woburn, is very much indebted for its 

 productiveness to the penetrating judg- 

 ment and indefatigable attention of a 

 Scotsman, who has the management of 

 the Prisley-farm, as bailiff to the Duke of 

 Manchester, who occupies the farm : and 

 I cannot help conjecturing, that Scotland 

 will not much longer stand in need of 

 English instruction in this art, 



Lancashire and Yorkshire, Mr. Smith 

 here informs us, might likewise reap the 

 advantages of irrigation ; and I can assure 

 him that floating is well understood in 



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