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over the fields, which are confequently fa 

 much the fooner dry, and ready for plough- 

 ing ; and in all refpeOs the founder and 

 healthier. I cannot fpeak of this pradlice 

 in the manner it deferves. It is worthy of 

 univerfal imitation on clay, and all moifl 

 foils where the country has any variations 

 of furface. 



Nor is this fpirited cultivator lefs atten- 

 tive to draining his clay foils by means of 

 large covered drains. He digs them from 

 three to fix feet deep, two feet wide at bot- 

 tom, and four feet at top, and within that 

 fpace turns an arch of brick work ; this 

 is doing the bufmefs of main drains very 

 effectually, and being below the l)ottoms 

 of all his ditches, w^ater nq^w^here flands in 

 them for w^ant of a fall, which is very often 

 the cafe : And further, one of the principal 

 points of a general hollow draining is there- 

 by executed ; as three or four fuch main 

 ones being judicioufiy made about a farm, 

 an opportunity is every where commanded 

 for laying the leffer ones into them, when- 

 ever it is thought proper to make them. 



In all parts of rural occcnomics, this 

 gentleman is judicious in his defigns, and 

 fpirited in the execution. When he came 

 to his eftate, he found all the farm houfcs 

 and offices in mifcrable repair ; many he has 

 pulled down, and has repaired all: Thofe 

 he raifes from the ground are allfubflantially 



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