WATER-WORSES: 



contents of the grounds: and, having found 

 your drowning, and fore-recited trenches, 

 observe what height every stanke or damme 

 is : and if you can see the flouds playing 

 against the damme, your experience in 

 beholding it goeth farre beyond mine. 



I will not forgett the two-foote-trench, 

 topping your Maine-river, with-in foure, 

 or five foote from the Banke, as occasion 

 is offered. The use of which Trench so 

 neere the River, many may wonder at 

 (as many have done) why it should bee 

 drawne so neare the maine-r/Wr it being 

 but two foote broad and one foote deepe. 



I know not how all Rivers and Brookes 

 runne else-where, but in that which I 

 labour, the ground is much higher on the 

 River side, then the maine-flatt-bottome, and, 

 where by sluce I drowne some thirty Acars 

 upon a reasonable levell ; yet upon the 

 River side the height is such, as my sluce 

 will doe no good, if I suffer the water to 

 descend into the flat bottome, not taking 

 the advantage in the beginning of my 

 Topping-trench . 



If part of your ground bee drownd, and 

 some part forgotten, there is a fault some- 

 where; either by ignorance, or negligence, 

 101 or 



A fault to 

 drowne 

 some, and to 

 leave some 

 of the same 

 ground 

 undrowned. 



