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ftssertion of Mr. Smith's for these eighteen 

 years last past, and have not been able yet 

 to meet with one. I have seen a variety 

 of meadows in which the water has been 

 used twice; but I have as often found, 

 that the second using was defective, both 

 as to the quantity and quality of the grass 

 thereby produced : and where the water 

 has been used more than twice, I have in- 

 variably discovered a still greater inferi- 

 ority in crop. I have never j^et seen a 

 bed, or the side of a ridge, in a floated 

 meadow, as j^roductive and as palatable 

 to cattle in its lower part as in its upper 

 part, provided it was five or six yards 

 wide. But Mr. Smith has himself con- 

 futed his own hasty affirmation, in various 

 parts of his book, particularly in page 39, 

 where he allows, that the wash of a single 

 street of Norwich, when used in floating, 

 would make the adjoining meadows ex- 

 ceedingly 



