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coft, that the river run its new channel, that I 

 immediately gained about 10 acres of fine bot- 

 toms for meadows upon each fide of the old 

 river, and as the new river was three or four 

 feet higher than the old, I obtained a fail for a 

 mill, which I obferved might be increafed, by 

 running a deep drain through the north bog 

 for a tail race, which would alfo contribute to 

 reclaim that bog : this I perfected, run it 1 1 

 feet wide down to the gravel, 94 perch in 

 length, and in fome parts into the gravel, to 

 preferve the level. I built a bleach mill, the 

 firft built in the province where the fall lav, 

 and the bog flnce reclaimed about it, is part of 

 the green for bleaching linen. 



From my new river, to a lake which lay 

 about 230 perch to the eaft in the great bog, I 

 cut a large drain of that length, to fupply my 

 mill with water from the lake, when the river 

 fhould prove low in fummer. This work was 

 thought to be impracticable, the bog between 

 being many feet higher than either the lake or 

 the river, but I know that the lake was higher 

 than the river ; indeed, for the firft and fecond 

 year, it proved impracticable, the drain, though 

 laid out above ten feet wide, ftill filling up as 

 it was made: but by perleverance, and ftill 

 opening the drain at the end where the fall lay, 

 at length the lake, to the furprife of many, run 

 into the river, and gave me a new command 

 of water. The whole bog, in ten years time, 

 funk amazingly, and difclofed to me, from the 

 windows of my houfe, the profpect of a coun- 

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