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April 7th, 1802, he turned in his cows, and they found 

 full teed during the rest of the month. May ist, shut 

 them up, and in nine weeks cut two tons per acre, and 

 they have heen fed since: these meadows were full of the 

 broad-leaved piaintain, which has disappeared, and are 

 now clothed with good grasses. 



I have rarely seen a finer opportunity for irrigation than 

 nt Hillingdon: Sir Martin Folkes and Mr. Coke 

 have the stream as a boundary for two miJes together. 

 Captain Be ACHER walked with me on the banks of It for 

 a considerable distance : I found the declivity every where 

 so rapid, that it cannot be doubted but that it may be car- 

 ried over a large tra6i of poor arable slopes, to the efFedl- 

 ing a most profitable improvement. Nothing yet done: 

 but this subjeil is well started in Norfolk, and the age of 

 dreaming passed. If these proprietors muddle themselves 

 in the low flat lands, on the river banks, already of a good, 

 though inferior value, instead of running levels as high aS. 

 possible for floating the dry arable, they will make a shil- 

 ling where they might make pounds. For carrying irriga- 

 tion to the highest improvement, the levels should be taken 

 for two or three miles before a spade is in hand : and then, 

 if there be some lousy miller below, he yelps at the un- 

 deitaking. Thiee or four proprietors should unite, and 

 buy, or burn, the mills, before they think of beginning. 



Uncommon opportunity for it from Sedgfoid to the sea, 

 through Heacham : two mills denote a fall of ten feet in 

 three miles, besides the rapid motion of the water every 

 \vherc : after a long drought I found ample water in the 

 stream for great improvements, and the circumstance of 

 many dry arable fields under the level, will, by-and-bye, 

 be found of great v;due. Mr. Styleman has engaged 

 Mr. Brooks to make a trial. 



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