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rility, is now the cause of its fertility. But 

 this is by no means the case : and the 

 water, which he says he " has obtained by 

 " the drainage, is so far from being nearly 

 *' equal to that of the brook," that it is not 

 even a thousandth part of it. 



A friend and I went last year, in the 

 month of November, purposely to see 

 these meadows ; and when we enquired 

 of Mr. Kerr, who had the management 

 of them, where we could see the bog* 

 water, he answered, " there is no bog- 

 " water, at least none worth noticing ; if 

 " we had nothing to depend upon, in our 

 " watering, but bog-water, our meadows 

 " would make a very poor figure." In- 

 deed the truth of this was very manifest, 

 for the stream there in use was rapid and 

 powerful, and as turbid as any that I had 

 ever seen used; it had flowed several 



miles ; 



