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Smith says, in the next page, speaking of 

 the Prisley-Bog meadows, " having ob- 

 " tained by the drainage a quantity of 

 " water, nearly equal to that of the brook, 

 ** and which I was ver^'^ anxious to use, 

 " being, by an ochrey appearance, hitherto 

 " deemed unfit for floating." 



If Mr. Smith could have established 

 what he has here asserted, his Prisley 

 wonders would have been worth j^ of being 

 recorded in a book. If bog-water had 

 been found there, to possess qualities 

 which it never possessed elsewhere, the 

 discovery would have deserved at least 

 publicity ; but the fact is, Mr. Smith has 

 deceived his readers ; he has all along 

 given us to understand, that the water 

 which he used upon the Prisley Bog mea- 

 dows was bog watery or, as he here says, 

 that which was before the cause of its ste- 

 rility. 



