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Sometimes the land intended for this 

 operation has already been ridged up by 

 the plough ; and tlien the process of lay- 

 ing out for floating is perfectly easy, and 

 inconsiderable in expense. The Avork, in 

 this case is, in fact, done to your hand ; 

 you have notliing to do but to make a 

 wide ditch along the headland, and smaller 

 ditches along the summit of each ridge, 

 and the water will be regularly distributed 

 and pass off by the furrows. If one head- 

 land is insufficient to give the Avater a 

 proper descent, another, or more, will be 

 easily made, by filling up the furrows as 

 high as the ridges, and by cutting a drain 

 across the ridges. Everj^ person should 

 form to himself the idea of a field thrown 

 into headlands and ridges, before he set* 

 about the formation of a floated-meadow. 



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