308 November 1748. 



water might run into their ponds, which is 

 very falutary for the fi{h : for that purpofe 

 the ponds were placed near a fpring on a 

 hill. 



November the 13th. I saw in feveral 

 parts of this province a ready method of 

 getting plenty of grafs to grow in the mea- 

 dows. Here muft be remembered what I 

 have before mentioned about the fprings, 

 which are fometimes found on the fides of 

 hills and fometimes in vallies. The mea- 

 dows lie commonly in the vallies between 

 the hills : if they are too fwampy and wet, 

 the water is carried off by feveral ditches. 

 But the fummer in Penfylvania is very hot -, 

 and the fun often burns the grafs fo much, 

 that it dries up entirely. The hufbandmen 

 therefore have been very attentive to pre- 

 vent this in their meadows : to that pur- 

 pofe they look for all the fprings in the 

 neighbourhood of a meadow; and as the 

 rivulets flowed before by the fhorteft way 

 into the vallies, they raife the water as 

 much as poffible and neceirar)^ to the 

 higher part of the meadow, and make feve- 

 ral narrow channels from the brook, down 

 into the plain, fo that it is entirely wa- 

 tered by it. When there are fome deep- 

 er places, they frequently lay wooden gut- 

 ters acrofs them, through which the water 



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