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but marie, mixed with dung, proved very good; 

 lime, dung, or kelp, broke fine into powder, 

 proved the beft. I reclaimed above one acre, 

 by gravelling, and laying a coat of frefli lime 

 over the gravel, and planted potatoes upon the 

 lime, without any dung; the potatoes were 

 fmall, and lay thin when dug out, but the corn, 

 which fucceeded them, proved very good, and 

 the bog was thereby well-reclaimed. It fhould 

 be obferved, that all the ftone and gravel of this 

 country is lime-ilone. 1 tried to reclaim part 

 by burning, but the red bogs, which mine were, 

 proved too wet and fpongy; the aibes were 

 white, and fo light that they had little effect 

 In the manner I have defcribed, I reclaimed 

 about five acres of the fouth bog, which lay 

 within the navigable line; but not being able 

 to purfue my navigation into this bog,' the gra- 

 vel at the bottom of the bog rifing above the 

 level of my upper river, without considerable 

 expenfe, and the addition of another water- 

 lock, 1 made a firm gravel road into the bog, 

 firlt dividing one of the large divisions, made by 

 my father; by two crofs drains ten feet wide, 

 into four divisions, which made the bog pretty 

 dry; I then laid dung, two or three inches 

 thick, upon the furfaceof the bog, without any 

 gravel or other manures under : I obferve, that 

 the crops of potatoes, corn, and meadow follow- 

 ing, were full as good as thofe where the gravel 

 was firft laid on, which in wet bogs fink too 

 Suddenly, 1 would therefore advife, and intend 

 to purine, trie I . on of gravel after the bog 

 been mowed for two or three years : the 



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