BUILDINGS, 2^ 



vcyet^ the drainings of it to the river: this ditch was 

 cleaned out, and a great row of road-side mould raised ; 

 the declivity admitted the cx-ccutioa of a thought, beauti- 

 fully, simple and useful. A nench is cut along the top of 

 this row of earth, to receive the drainings of the yard; 

 stops are made at a small distance from each other, t» 

 keep the liquor till the earth absoibs it; and thus the 

 whole is impregnated. As the watered meadow is just 

 below, Mr. Purdis intends, 'when the earth is removed, 

 to convey the drainings into his main carrier, for enriching 

 his w^ater of irrigation. VV^hen once men are led /o think, 

 nothing is lost : the mind is awakened to every hint; and 

 circumstances which, in a :>lecping age, would be passed 

 by, are turned by active exertion into profit. In such a 

 state of progressive improvement, every objetSt becomes 

 interesting, and all the faculties of the human mind are 

 on the stretch to draw advantage, where our ancestors 

 drawled on ina6live and torpid. 



I wish 1 had it in my power to add, that I saw a good 

 farm-yard in the county, manifesting contrivance, and in 

 which no building could be moved to any other scitewith- 

 juut doing miscliicf. Where is such an one to be seen ? 



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