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the expense, to have a floated meadow* 

 complete in all its parts, and from which 

 even the appearance of imperfection 

 should be excluded. Orders were ac" 

 cordingly given that the land should b© 

 formed into ridges of ten yards width; 

 that each feeder and gutter should have 

 its appropriate descent of one inch in nine 

 yards; and that each bed should be a 

 perfect inclined plane, with two inches 

 fall in each yard. I'his plan was strictly 

 observed, and every inch of the gronnd 

 was worked by line and level ; and when 

 the surface was grown sufficiently firm, 

 the water was admitted, and was found to 

 flow over every part, in a sheet of equal 

 depth, without any other check than what 

 ?irose from the gradual contraction in the 

 width of the gutters. 



This meadow is probably as perfect in 



its 



