WATER-WORKES. 



Now, fixing your fancy on this Misterie, 

 you must pry into every Fa I low-fa Id, 

 Dung-hil, and Water-course in your neigh- 

 bourhood : then compare the quantity of 

 ground unto the quantity of water you can 

 draw unto it, and if you find water ynough 

 to answer your desire, then in the begin- 

 ning of your ground, plant your weare or 

 scluce in height levell with the Bankes, 

 or exceeding it one foote (or there aboutes) 

 ore-thwart the River or Brooke : and carry 

 your Trench-Royall (which is your grand- 

 maister-Trench) so farre as your ground 

 extendes plimm or levell : that from the 

 mouth of your Weare, or Scluce, to the 

 end of the ditch or trench, your water may 

 flow backe againe over your scluce into 

 the River or brooke. In so doing, you 

 have a full command forward and back- 

 ward (without any descent) to drowne 

 at your pleasure : though your trench 

 royall rise in the end twenty, or forty 

 foote from the mouth of the scluce. 



Having prepared your dro wning-course, 

 bee very (a) carefull that all your ground 

 subject to the same (whether Medow, 

 Pasture, or Errable) bee as plaine as any 

 garden-plott. If you leave any forrow, 

 95 reane, 



(a) Looke 

 well to the 

 levelling of 

 the grounds 

 that are to 

 be drowned. 



