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As rolling, and preffure, bring the annual 

 meadow-grajsy fo flooding immediately 

 begets th^jiotefcfcque, or marjh bent, the 

 richeft of all graffes; being equally bulky 

 in quantity, and nourifhing in quality. 

 This is the grafs, that fwims upon the 

 tops of ponds; fprings up where water 

 has flood ; and which cattle frequently 

 plunge up to their bellies to reach. 

 Horfes, and cows, are ravenoufly fond of 

 it; and, according to Mr. Stillingjieet' ^ 

 account, the blade is not only fweet, but 

 the feed which it produces is gathered, 

 and eaten, by the common people in 

 Sweden, as we eat millet. 



There is a fort of paflure, to be found 

 in moft counties, where land lies to a 

 cold afped;, which is very much inclined 

 to mofs 3 which chokes up the grafs, and 

 impoverifhes the land. Penning fheep 

 upon it is one way of killing the mofs, 



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