WATER-WORKES. 



me they did their best indeavor : But 

 after they had taken some halfe a foot of 

 the greene sward (or face of the ground 

 away) they could not force their spades 

 or spittels one inch deepe, the hardnesse 

 of the Earth was such : and wish'd mee 

 to give over that under-taking. 



It was some-what before Michelmas 

 (the Winter-raine not having suppled or 

 mollified the ground any whit at al) I 

 commanded them to attend their labour 

 on the morrow ; then did I cause them 

 to run forty pearches in length, six foot 

 broad, & but halfe a foot deepe ; which 

 halfe-foote deepe the spades did easily 

 enter : And so for that day, I ended with 

 them. Then they demaunded what im- 

 ployment I would putt them to the next 

 morrow ? I bad them good night : and 

 willed them to bee there very early in 

 the morning. After they were gone I 

 caus'd my man, to let downe the sluces^ 

 and raise the Water to the height thereof, 

 and Sodainly the Trench flowing, it 

 entred with such puissance as if it would 

 have dissolved the very Bowels of the 

 Ground. Then early before their com- 

 ming my Servant tooke up the Sluces, 

 145 sunke 



