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aflertion of mine -, for moft certainly he had 

 confidcrably innproved his farm by taking the 

 water from it by under-draining, and by keep- 

 ing fneep; and he thought it muft be wrong, 

 to throw water upon the furface in any c^fe 

 where it could be conveyed away by under- 

 drain«. He took me to the fummit of a hill, 

 and fhewed me a ftrong fpring thatufed nearly 

 to deftroy part of a large meadow of his. To 

 cure this, he had fixed feven flone troughs, 

 each placed at the end of the other, for his cattle 

 to drink from : and at the end of the troughs 

 he had made an under-drain of ftone, which 

 reached half a mile. The current was fo flrong 

 it would have turned an overfhot mill. By 

 means of thefe troughs the farmer obtained in 

 the year many loads of dung, depofited by his, 

 cattle in the water when they went to drink.—. 

 This dung would otherwife have been totally 

 loft. He had made under-drains for all the reft 

 of the field, Vv^iiich was a large one. I admired 

 the improvement i and, recolieding Mr. Bakc- 

 weirs maxim, *' that pure water v/as the beft 

 to improve land," I examined whether this ap- 

 parently 



