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I fhall mention one other method of 

 planting, which is produdlive of much 

 improvement, 'viz. to appropriate wet 

 and boggy lands to tliis ufe, inflead of 

 devoting them to pafture -, in which 

 cafe they frequently give cattle the rot, 

 and are often dear at a crown an acre. 

 But, planted v/ith fuitable aquatic 

 woods, they yield an immediate profit 

 of fifteen, or twenty fliillings an acre 

 yearly, and carry on an increaling gift to 

 poflerit}^, which will be of as much va- 

 lue, in fifty years time, as the fee fim.ple 

 of the land before this improvement was 

 made. 



The befl way of planting this fort of 

 land is, by digging the vvhole of It a foot 

 deep, inverting the turf, and afterwards . 

 opening trenches, which fliould have a 

 free difcharge, at one end, into fome 

 more capital drain, or outfall. Thefe 

 O trenches 



