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yet found him guilty of preferring clear to 

 ??iuddi/-wsLter in floating. This was a dis- 

 covery reserved for those who love to 

 derive every thing agricultural from a 

 profound, a preternatural, or, what they 

 call a philosophical source. The com- 

 mon farmer knows, by experience, that 

 the common land flood, the practice of 

 warping, or any thing else that brings 

 mud and dung upon his land, brings that 

 which does good to his grass the whole 

 year after\\'ards. 



Page 98, Mr. Smith says, " By my 

 ** plan of combining draining with float- 

 " ing, the}^" viz» the Prislej^, and other 

 bogs, " have been converted into mea- 

 ** dow-ground of the first quality, and 

 *' that by the means that were found on 

 " the spot, and which were previously the 

 '• cause of its sterility." And again Mr. 



Smith 



