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 he found his grounds divided into a mul- 

 tiplicity of fmall doles by itone walls ; he 

 threw them all down, and with the materials 

 drained the land, which was before muclj 

 damaged by fuperfluous water. He cuts 

 main ones three feet deep, and three feet 

 and an half wide at top, and two at bot- 

 tom ; at each fide at bottom a ilone is laid 

 and covered by another, and then filled up 

 with fmaller ilones, in this manner. Plate 

 IV. Fig. 4. 



The expence, digging and filling, is 

 IS. 4^. a rood, befides leading the ftones. 

 The branches he cuts two feet deep, two 

 feet wide at top, and one at bottom, and 

 fills them in the fame manner ; the cofl 

 11 J. per rood, befides leading. The general 

 rule is to make them from four to feven 

 yards afunder. The improvement is pro- 

 digious, the fields which before were poi- 

 foned with water, fo as to prevent any 

 good crops, and rendered fo wet and 

 boggy as fcarcely to bear a fheep without 

 damage, will now admit the tread of a great 

 ox in winter without poaching : — Draining 

 is undoubtedly the firfl: work to be under- 

 taken in the improvement of moid or wet 

 foils; and thole who think to effed that 

 work by manuring alone, or cutting a few 

 open drains, will certainly find themfelves 

 miflaken, for twenty {hillings laid out in 



manuring 



