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ried, and a poorer foil brought upon the 

 furface. It is therefore to be wiflied, that 

 no fimilar pradtice may be introduced, 

 upon a lilie foil, in any part of England. 



Another mode of draining ploughed 

 land is, by throwing it into very fmall 

 ridges of two, fometimes four, or fix fur- 

 rows only; and provided the ground be 

 ploughed in fuch a manner as to give the 

 furrows a free difcharge, this is by no 

 means a bad practice ; becaufe it takes 

 off all furface water, and the land is not 

 more difficult to occupy, and may be 

 thrown again into any other form at 

 pleafure. 



But the moft effecftual way of draining 

 ploughed ground is that pradifed in Ef- 

 fex; where the farmers have the merit 

 of laying land, which is naturally full of 

 fprings, entirely dry -, and of obtaining 

 great crops where no corn would othcr- 

 C 2 wife 



