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the crop. When the feafon is remarkably 

 ^dry, another difadvantage refults from 

 this awkward method. The tops of the 

 ridges, if the foil partake at all of gravel, 

 are fure to burn. Both which difad- 

 vantages are brought on by the extreme 

 the occupiers of thofe lands have run 

 into, by increafmg the convexity of the 

 ridge from time to time. Befides the real 

 lofs they fuftain, it muft be a great in- 

 convenience to occupy land in this man- 

 ner, which nothing but ufe can reconcile. 

 This, of all methods of draining, may 

 fafely be called the worfl; and it is to be 

 lamented that no other can now be fug- 

 gefted, in this, or any fimilar cafe ; fmce 

 it would not anfwer, by any means, to 

 throw the ground into any other form, as 

 the labour would be immenfe; and the 

 manure, which has been laid upon it for 

 centuries back, mult in that cafe be bu- 

 ried. 



