396 IRRIGATION. 



1802. After some years experience of these mcndows, 

 }kIv. Bevan found, contrary to his expedition, th.it the 

 rushes would not give way to the water ; and Mr. 

 Brooks, from Gloucestershire, viewing them, and hav- 

 ing the favour of a visit from the Rev. Mr. Wright, lie 

 employed Mr. Brooks to new form the works, by al- 

 tering the dire<5lion of the beds, and reducing them from 

 ten and twelve yards to seven, and the immediate improve- 

 ment made was very great : and he has also made several 

 new meadows ; the first done were 46 acres, and 14 more 

 are now adding. 



Mr. P. Galway, at Ti>ffts, has watered 20 acres: 

 having read Mr. Wright's ticatisc, he made application 

 to that gentleman, who procured for him a man (Mr. 

 Brooks) well skilled ia the Gloucestershire method. I 

 viewed the meadow which was fed. I have no doubt of 

 the improvement being exceedingly great, though the ex- 

 pense, by contrail, was only 4I. 4s. per acre ; but I have 

 «Treat doubts of the metjiod followed. I think the beds or 

 panes too flat, and that, consequently, the warer has not a 

 motion sufficiently nimble ; and this, I conceive, results 

 from the error of taking the water from a level of too small 

 an elevation. Mf. Lucas has done a meadow of eight 

 acres, still lower, at Lyndfoid, upon which the improve- 

 ment, owing to the same cause, may perhaps disappoint 

 him. 



Having crossed the Brldgham river, going from Riddles^ 

 worth to Thetford, and observing that it brought down 

 (in July) a most copious stream, 1 made it a point to exa- 

 mine it higher up ; and under the condu6tof Mr. Fowell, 

 of Snetterton, traced it from EastHarling church to Bre- 

 tenham, being throughout that line chiefly bounded by tlie 

 property of Sir John Sebright ; generally on the left 

 side, West Harling ; but interrupted by the commons and 



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