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the boats are thereby enabled to go to the high- 

 lands, where there is plenty of gravel to manure 

 the bogs. I. made my navigable lines by bank- 

 ing out the water, and keeping the drains 

 empty by fcrew pumps of about 13 feet long, 

 which were worked by two men relieving each 

 other day and night, which my own carpenter 

 made, and alfo built my locks before he had 

 feen any thing of the kind, until he admired 

 his own works. Whilft I was executing the 

 works which I have defcribed, I proceeded to 

 reclaim the bogs adjacent to them. The lines 

 I have mentioned divided the north bog into 4 

 parts, which I inclofed by fmallcr drains into fo 

 many little parks ; it is entirely reclaimed, and 

 has been for feveral years paft under tillage and 

 meadow, and yet, now, though it has fubfided 

 confiderably, an iron borer of 1 8 feet, does not 

 in feveral parts thereof reach the bottom of the 

 bog: it w T as full of holes, out of which turf for 

 fuel had been formerly cut, the levelling of 

 which added much to the expenfe of reclaim- 

 ing. The earl bog, from the ifland to the old 

 river, is all reclaimed, except two or three 

 acres towards the fouth, and has likewife been 

 under tillage and meadow for fome years paft„ 

 I reclaimed thefe two bogs, by covering the 

 furface with lime-ftone gravel, then laid a coat 

 of dung over it, and planted potatoes upon the 

 dun?; the next year fowed oats, or rye and 

 grafs feeds, and the following year mowed the 

 produce: the bog was fo wet, that 1 cut feveral 

 fmall drains, which I fince filled up, when they 



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