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represented the stops, which are required 

 in the feeders and floating-gutters, hy small 

 circles and the letter S. The strong lines, 

 drawn from the lower end of two of the 

 floating-gutters, and marked T. T., are 

 meant to signify two shallow ditches, 

 called trenches, whose office it is to carry 

 the water to the corners of the heds, which 

 otherwise, in many instances, would not 

 reach them. 



To float such a piece of land as this, 

 where the declivity is gentle, and all one 

 way, can be no very difficult task, one 

 would think, even to a person who has 

 never seen a meadow watered by art. 



By Fig. 1, in this Plate, I mean to re- 

 present a transverse section of a ridge, 

 made on a flat surface, in its first year of 

 formation, when it is only raised a little in 



the 



