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 Duke, and merely for the ufe of draining 

 it, and conveying manures to improve it : 

 It is greatly to that nobleman's honour to 

 find him attending, and at a coniiderable 

 expence, to matters of hulhandry, in the 

 midft of undertakings that would alone 

 convey his name with peculiar brilliancy to 

 the lateft pofterity. 



This bog is of large extent, extremely 

 wet, and fo rotten, that, before it is impro- 

 ved, it will not bear even a man. The Duke 

 begins by cutting fmall drains, very near 

 each other, which foon render the furface 

 pretty firm. Then his barges bring the chip- 

 pings of ftone, and other rubbim, which 

 arife in digging the coals, and which are 

 brought out of the mine exactly in the fame 

 manner, only inftead of going to market, to 

 be fold, they are converted into money, in 

 another way, by being brought hither. This 

 rubbim is wheel-barrowed out of the barges 

 on boards, on to the land, which is greatly 

 improved by it ; the furface foon becomes 

 found, the aquatic fpontaneous growth dif- 

 appears by degrees, better herbage comes, 

 and thus it is converted into profitable paf- 

 ture, without any paring, burning, or 

 ploughing. Some of the larger fhivers of the 

 (tone will not crumble with the froils ; fuch 

 are picked up, laid in heaps, and carried back 

 to the ftone-yard, where they are fquarcd 

 for buildings, or converted to other ufes. 



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