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tliefe new *y drained lands can avoid 

 making, 1 iz. the immenfe breadth of the 

 bye-roads, many of which lead only to a 

 fingle farm-4>ouie, or to about a dozen in- 

 clofures; the) \ are all by Act of Parliament 

 60 feet broafj-o For thefe purpoies it is 

 prepofterouso v o lofe fuch quantities of 

 ftrong rich clay land of 30/. an acre, when 

 half the breadth would be equally ufeful. 

 High-roads, it is not to be regretted the 

 Parliament mould infift on that breadth for ; 

 but for fuch as thefe, which have fo very 

 flight a traffic, it is a ftriking abfurdity. 

 Secondly, it muft furely be obferved, that 

 many of thefe new inclofures are over-run 

 r'ith. rufhes, and other aquatic weeds, and 

 re in many places fo wet, as to poach 

 with the tread of cattle, even at this fea- 

 fon ; what therefore, muft they do in win- 

 ter ? Now it is evident from this circum- 

 ftance, either that the true fall is not taken 

 to carry off the water, (fo much of which 

 we fee ftagnatmg in the ditches) or that 

 the ditches are not of a fufficient depth to 

 drain the land. But fuppofing either of 

 thefe, or both, or neither, to be the cafe, 

 yet there appears the greateft rcafon to ap- 

 prehend, that thefe inclofures cannot be 

 perfectly drained without the affiftance of 

 hollow drains, fuch as are ufed in c 

 mon in Suffolk and Kffex\ if the ditches are 

 fouad of a fufficient depth 1, how- 



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