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good water, no man can err. Only bring 

 the water along the highest parts of your 

 land, and the water will soon shew you 

 where it will spread. If you are deficient 

 this year, try to improve the next. I fnid 

 that alterations are not so very expensive 

 as they are represented. A man with a 

 good eye, with common sense, and with a 

 proper degree of attention, will soon 

 astonish both himself and others, with 

 what he has done in his attempts at irri- 

 gation. I scarcely ever heard of a person's 

 having made a fair trial in floating, and 

 afterwards repenting of it. I can adduce 

 many instances of gentlemen and farmers 

 having formed excellent meadows, without 

 any knowledge or instruction but what 

 they derived from an attentive perusal of 

 the very concise and imperfect sketch 

 which I gave of this art in my first treatise. 

 I myself have lately, without one grain of 



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