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ledting rain-water : yet flill they draw water 

 out of the bowels of the earth ; or, in very 

 dry feafons, drag it perhaps three or four 

 miles up-hill in water-cans ! 



In the ifland of Bermudas, and in fomeof 

 the Weft India iflands, the inhabitants have 

 (generally fpeaking) no other frefli water 

 than that which they colled: from the atmo- 

 fphere in tanks j and it is ftriking to fee the 

 fiiiall quantity of colleding furface requifitcto 

 the fupply of a family with this neceffary cle- 

 ment; a furface fmall in comparifon with the 

 roofs of a middle-lized farm-houfe and offices. 



In fhis Diftricl", in which water-cifterns ate 

 growing into general ufc, efpecially in upland 

 iituations, I have (ecn an inflance where the 

 dwelling-houfe alone affords more than a fuf- 

 ficiency of water for every ufe of the family. 

 Nor is it the convcniency of having a con- 

 ftant fupply of water always at hand, which 

 alone conftitutes the utility of watcr-ciuerns. 

 Rain-water prcfcrved in quantity under 

 ground, is pure and palatable in a fuperior 

 degree : cool in fummer, and warm in win- 

 tct. It is particularly grateful to cattle ; ef- 

 pecially when they arc ill : and it is highly 



probable 



