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from his pits to the town, and he conceives 

 Tome hopes of making Belford a port, though 

 at two or three miles diftance from the fea ; 

 this will be of glorious advantage to the 

 town, and open markets for his coals at 

 prefent unthought of. In a word, this active 

 genius is daring and comorehenrive in his 

 ideas, penetrating and fpirited in the exe^ 

 cution. 



At the fame time that he has effected 

 theie noble works, he has not been idle in 

 Other refpects. IJq has built a very hand- 

 fome manfron-houfe for his own refidence, 

 raifed numerous plantations, and erected 

 feven new farm-houfes, with all the necef- 

 iary offices, the whole fubitantially of brick 

 and tile. 



In the walk of hufbandry he has tried fome 

 experiments, which deferve attention : Much 

 of his land is fo wet as to require draining ; 

 Jiis method of doing which is as follows : 

 While the fielol is in tillage, he marks out 

 the low places, where the water lodges, with 

 (ticks, and then, with a plough, throws the 

 \a.nd from the low fpace ; by beginning at a. 

 certain diftance, five or fix yards for inftance 

 from the bottom of if, and continually turn- 

 ing the furrows from it, until the plough 

 (mimes in the middle, and confequently leaves 

 an open furrow there j by which means a 

 drain is made for the water, which carries 

 U off with a little opening by fpa^es : — And 



after*? 



