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Befidcs the firll coft, which was raifed by 

 fubfcription, 2. fuperintendant has ten pounds 

 a-year for keeping it in repair and free from 

 obftruflions ; which yearly falary is paid by 

 the voluntary contribution of the perfons be- 

 nefited ; each being rated agreeably to the 

 eflimated benefit received *. 



3. Field-Wells. The fkirts of the mar- 

 gin, formerly arable fields, but now grafsland 

 inclofures, were on their firftinclofure equal- 

 ly deftitute of natural and artificial watering: 

 places. Water for flock, how'ever, was in a 

 tiegree neceflary j but the art of pond-making 

 was not then known. Wells were therefore 

 funk : the depth twenty to thirty feet, ac- 

 cording to fituation. The water is raifed 

 either by a pump or by a roller and bucket. 

 The referv'oirs ftone-troughs. Sometimes the 

 wxU is funk in the line of a fence, fupplying 

 two fields with water. 



In fituations which are low and flat, yet 

 dry, pools are diflicult to be filled ; and wells 

 of courfe more eligible. They arc readily 

 funk, and feldom dry, in fuch fituations. 



N 2 ROADS. 



* In a bill which is now before Parliament for in- 

 clofuig the commons and remnant common fields of the 

 townlliip, a claufe is wifely infcrted to eflablifli a I gal 

 ajjejpmnt for th-e prefervatiou of this rill. 



