230 SHORES AND SURFACE-DRAINS, m. 



I have obferved an inftance of this kind, 

 in which the ground on the river-fide of the 

 bank has been raifed near a foot above the 

 natural level of the ground on the other fide 



of it. 



By this elevation of furface the land is not 

 only laid dry, but, if the waters be of a good 

 quality, is at the fame time enriched. 



Thefe flips, if of fufficient width, are fin^ 

 gularly well adapted to the purpofc of ozier 

 BEDS : and are eligible pasture grounds. 

 The banks are places of fafety for flock to 

 fly to in floods ; a fpecies of refuge they had 

 not when the whole lay open. 



The EXPENCE of embankment, in ordina- 

 ry cafes, and under proper management, is 

 far from exceflive. 



This Vale affords more than one inflance 

 of RIVER-EMBANKMENTS. Brawhy-mccr^ con- 

 taining about three hundred acres of low 

 marlliland foil, over-run in an open (late with 

 furze and rufiies, together with fome inter- 

 fpaccs of fcdgy grafs, was liable to be over- 

 flo'.vcd by the river Seven, which runs on 

 the upper fide of it ; the Rye, which wafiies 

 it 051 the orhcv iide, being its natural fhore. 



Thefe 



