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will ferve the purpofe of covering drains. — • 

 Even draw has been ufed with fuccefs : but 1 

 diflike that method. In fa6l, I difapprove of 

 every thing that prevents draw from being 

 made into nnanure for the benefit of the farnn. 

 It ought always to be returned to the farm, and 

 every grateful farmer will do fo. 



Under-drains are made in an excellent man- 

 lier with brick- work: but that method has be- 

 come too expenfive fince the high duty laid 

 on bricks ; except perhaps in the vicinity of 

 large towns, where land bears an extravagant 

 price ; or in pleafure grounds, where money 

 is not laid out with a view to profits Drains 

 of all forts mud, as before hinted, be cut ia 

 proportion to the quantity of water they are 

 meant to take off. 



Wet fand is the mod diificuk to drain by 

 ^open or furface-draining of any land whatever; 

 as the fand is continually running in and cho- 

 king the drain. There is no way to manage 

 it, but by under-drains : and then the fides 

 mud be fupported by fomething folid, fuch as 

 done, brick, plank, &c* Bricks or tiles made 

 with holes in them, like thofe put on the ridge 

 Vol. it. F cf 



