(a} At what 

 time, with 

 what water, 

 & how long 

 you ought to 

 drowne your 

 Grounds. 



WATER-WORKES. 



to put good errable to bad pasture. So 

 say I too. Others will say, ordinary 

 errable exceedes ordinary Pasture. It 

 may bee true : but I speake of good 

 errable appointed to bee drowned: I will 

 give no estimat of English Errable; scitu- 

 ate neare London or Haven Townes, or 

 to places more vendible then the country 

 wherein I inhabite. Yet this will I ex- 

 emplifie out of my experience, if the 

 Principality were duly imploied, & each 

 acre handled according to some plots be- 

 gun, I would hope to live to see Wales 

 called the Garden of England : for our 

 Welsh mountains yeeld infinit Fountains & 

 Springs^ the Grounds Fearny & broomy^ it 

 being of as excellent a temper to inter- 

 taine water as heart can wish ; unlesse 

 wee flye to the maine Sandy -grounds , 

 which are but sparingly found in Wales ; 

 the Country lying in a colde quarter of 

 no hotte Climate. 



Now, to speake of drowning, (a) at 

 what time of the yeare, with what water, 

 how long it may continue on the ground, 

 and what effect it will worke, you shall 

 have all I know to the uttermost ; at 

 least if I remember all. 



94 Now, 



