228 SHORES AND SURt" ACE-DRAINS. lo. 



be made. On the fovith and call fide of the 

 Dervvent, where perhaps the greateft im- 

 provement ma)^ be expedted, }efs difficulty- 

 would arife : the embankment of one rivulet: 

 would perhaps be found the only addition 

 requifite to the general embankment *. 



It may be unneceflary to fay, that the ex- 

 cavated mould of the shores ought to go to- 

 wards raifing the embankments ; thus ob- 

 taining, in one operation, the two principal 

 means of improvement : or that main drains 

 ousht to be led from the fhore into the area 

 of the fite to be improved. 



One thing, however, may not be fo obvi- 

 ous : namely, the situatiom of the em- 

 bankments WITH RESPECT TO THE RIVER. 



If the BANKS be fct upon the immediate 

 Irink^ as in general they arc, they become li- 

 able to be injured by the fmalleft deviation of 

 the RIVER ; with which the shores in this 

 cafe become too nearly connedted. Bcfides,, 



the 



* Since writine this article a meeting of the pro- 

 prietors of thcfc marlhcs ha been held, to confidcr of 

 an application to Parliament ior Jlraightmin^ and en- 

 larging the bed of the Deiivcni / But the propofal was 

 •vcr-rulcd. 



