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the drains thus made have flood exceedingly 

 Well, and never yet failed. It is an excel- 

 lent contrivance, and highly worthy of imi- 

 tation, and efpecially in countries where 

 flones and wood are i'carce. 



Yhe common farmers alfo drain their 

 morally lands in a very effectual manner, 

 by cuts a yard wide at top, iixteen inches 

 at bottom, and four feet deep ; they fill up 

 eighteen inches deep, with logs of wood 



come to a feat, inferibed to Thorn/on, in thefe 

 lines : 



Ingenio immortali 



J a c o b i Thomson - , 



Poet^e fublimis, 



Viri boni, 



iEdiculam hanc in feceiTu quern vivus dilexit, 



Port mortem ejus conftructam, 



Dicat, dedicatque, 



Georgius Littleton. 



From hence you look down on a fine lawn, and, 

 In front, upon a noble bank of hanging wood, in 

 which appears a temple. To the left a diftant 

 view of Malvern hills. 



Patting a well, called after the patriarch, from 

 which you have a diftant view of a hill over the 

 wood, you enter a grove of oaks, in which you 

 catch a glance at the caltle, through the trees, on 

 the top of the hill, beautifully riling out of a 

 bank of wood. 



Next we came to an ionic rotunda, inclofedin 

 a beautiful amphitheatre of wood •, it looks down 

 upon a piece of water in the hollow of a grove, at 

 the end of which is a pailadian bridge. The 



fcene 



