WATER-WORKES. 



They having no great scope to worke, 

 will so undermine from the brink of 

 the maine River to the brimm of your 

 Trench, that in your drowning-time, in 

 the heate of Sommer, you shall finde so 

 many Springs from their working-holes into 

 the River, which if you stop not, with 

 great care, in finding the places of breach, 

 the most part of your water will runne 

 into the River idely. 



To speake of the braving-trench : Be- 

 ginning at the Commanding-wear e, or 

 Scluce, it works this effect : if the violence 

 of the flood should bee such, as uppon a 

 sodaine, your hay at Midsomer should be 

 drowned by over-flowing the banke, or 

 in your After-math-time the like should 

 happen, it is at your choice whether you 

 will suffer that inconvenience or no : for 

 the Earth taken out of your two-foote- 

 Trench, beeing throwne on the one side 

 of the same, raiseth the Ground higher 

 then that beyond the River, by two foote 

 at the least : which forceth the Floud 

 altogether, on the other side, and keeps 

 your Hay and After-math ever in safety. 



This Topping or Br ailing-Trench must 

 runne to the lower part of your Groundes, 



H 105 as 



The Offices 

 of the 

 Braving 

 Trench. 



