ao8 MANAGEMENT OF GRASSLANDS. 



Over it. Prefently before my going down 

 into the Diftrid:, a perfon of the firfl prac- 

 tice in it had been employed, to condu6t the 

 water over the meadov^rs of Buckland Place i 

 which had previoufly lain in a ftate of 

 neglecCt. Neverthelefs, I found them ftill 

 in fuch a ftate, as induced me to have the 

 whole laid out, afrefh, under my own di-* 

 re(fl:ions. 



Yet, the eff'eS^ of the water, notwithfland- 

 ing the low ebb at which the watering of 

 lands is found, at thi^ day, is fuch as I have 

 no where obferved; except in the neigh-- 

 bourhood of chalk hills. It gives a green^ 

 nefs and groffnefs of herbage, nearly equal 

 to that of the meadows of Wiltfhire and 

 Hampffiire. 



This led me to conceive that the llatey 

 rock, cut of which the mofl eflicacious of 

 thefe waters filter, contained fome conli- 

 derable proportion of calcareous matter. 

 But, from the experiments already men- 

 tioned, the proportionate quantity of cal- 

 careous earth, contained in thefe flate rocks, - 

 appears to be fmall. 



Neverthelefs, it might be dangerous to 



con- 



