WATER-WORKES. 



my worke, they summoned a consultation 

 against mee, and my man John the 

 levellour : saying our wittes were in our 

 hands, and not in our heads : so, we both 

 for three or foure yeares, laye levell to 

 the whole Country-censure for such En- 

 ginors as their fore-fathers heard not of, 

 nor they well able to endure with-out 

 merryment. 



When my labours tooke beginning, 

 they became subject to discourse : Diverse 

 Gentlemen with others, inquired from 

 whence I had my Examples ; and where 

 I saw any such worke ? I could not an- 

 swere them but with an other question : 

 namely, where sawe you any such ? They 

 said, no where : Truly nor I. 



In the running and casting of my 

 Trench-royall^ though it were leveld from 

 the beginning to the end, upon the face 

 of the ground, yet in the bottome I did 

 likewise levell it to avoyde error. 



For the Breadth and Depth, my pro- 

 porcion is ten foote broad, and foure 

 foote deep ; unlesse in the beginning, to 

 fetch the water to my drowning-grounds, 

 I rann it some halfe mile, eight foot 

 deepe ; and in some places sixtenne-foote 

 87 broad. 



