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foil can ever be of a wholeforr^ irynefs, the 

 ditches of which are nearly fun v of water. 

 Thefe flat lands are chiefly meadow ground, 

 and let from 30 s. to ^5 s. ar. j 'acre. One 

 piece of ceconomy I obferved ,».vith pleafure, 

 not remembering to have if ui it before, 

 which is, the cultivating th>.**»rth thrown 

 out of the ditches with oats and potatoes : 

 you fee a narrow ftripe of fine oats, &c. 

 around many of the pafture fields; and as this 

 earth was thrown out but laft winter, and 

 undoubtedly of a moft wet and four nature, it 

 fhews the rank luxuriance of that grain and 

 root to flourifh fo well in a foil but jtaft 

 turned out from the bottom of a ditch 

 ufually full of water ; this management 

 was purfued upon the cleanfing of the old 

 ditches, as well as the moulds of the new 

 ones. But two remarks, no fpedtatof of 



extended to hiding the conclufion, by wind- 

 ing it among the wood where it could not be 

 followed ; and it would have been a great im- 

 provement, to have given the ftream in one 

 place a much greater wave, fo as to have en- 

 larged it to four times its prefent width •, this 

 would have added much to the variety of the 

 fcene. Laftly, I might remark, that the circu- 

 lar bafon near the end of the river has a very bad 

 effect-, any water fo very artificial, fhould not 

 be feen with the fame eye that views the imi- 

 tation of a real dream, 



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