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try which could not be feen from them before; 

 but works of this kind require patience and 



Severance: for at the end of three years, 

 when curiofity led me to fee the effects of a great 

 flood after a very heavy fall of rain, i had the 

 mortification to fee the great bank, which I 

 made acrofs the river, float away, like a boat 

 before me. The neighbours, who for years 

 pail had infilled that my father and 1 had un- 

 dertaken an impracticable work, applauded 

 their own judgment upon the occafion, and 

 endeavoured to diffuade me from any further 

 purfuit; but inftead of following their advice, 

 J immediately provided a boat, (for horfes and 

 cars could not, without great difficulty, be 

 brought to the place) and with its affiftance con- 

 veyed ftones fufficient to fill up the channel of 

 the old river, the breadth of the bank, and af- 

 terwards, by bog Huff brought by boat, and 

 funk in the front of the bank, I made it ftaunch; 

 then raifed it by fod work, and planted trees on 

 the top of it, by which means it has remained 

 firm, and anfw ? ered my whole defign for thefe 

 nineteen years pall. When I erected my mill, 

 and made fluices to keep up the water for it, I 

 obferved that my new liver thereby became na-* 



tble for a boat, as well as the old river, and 



t it might prove very advantageous for the 

 conveyance of manures, if a communication 

 was made from one to the other; but this was 

 difficult, as the new river, in time of flood, was 

 four or live feet higher in its level than the old 



\ yet I overcame the difficulty, by cutting 

 tble line 16 perch in :: gth, • ere was 



