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I apprehend, is fo fituated as to be capable 

 of being laid fufficiently dry, by the rivers 

 at dead water. 



Therefore the only exertion of art in this 

 caferequifite is, to open fufficicnt shores be- 

 tween the rivers and the grounds to be laid 

 dry ; finking fufficient ditches from the fliores; 

 and fufficient drains from the ditches. 



Many efforts of this nature have been made 

 with fpirit and with fucccfs. The West 

 Marshes, in general, are a ilriking inftance: 

 for although they lie upon a dead flat, and 

 but barely above the level of the waters of 

 the Derwent, they arc at prefent kept princi- 

 pally in an arable (late, and chiefly in wide 

 flat beds. Neverthelefs, by keeping open 

 furrows, deep ditches, and clean fliores, the 

 land in general is left as free from fuper- 

 fluous moiftuve, as if it were elevated a mile 

 above the Dcrwcnt. 



But the East Marshes fand fome othet 

 fmaller portions of the Vale) ftill remain a 

 difgrace to the country ; lying chiefly in a 

 ilate of /^»»— provincially " Carr;" — over- 

 ran with fedges and other paluflrian plants ; 

 which afford, during a few months in fum- 



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