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2. 



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not be 



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. ^ f ulti, 



be ri " °'"' 



in 



'avb 



a 



3cconi, 



^'■"^ed ia the 

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as 

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■y ; and ladl 



y 



flourifhabuc 

 brewery, and 



uch to be la- 



grow in wa- 



c 



lots or foliage 

 ^rthelefs, that 

 Dwering-ruOi, 

 ; ftarch might 

 « fermentable 



legar 



'hiaa m 



In their 



an 



acoriij 



arc 



fliced d 



in [alt 



e 



ferved m 



G. 



CO 



Staun^''"' 



Se(^ 



xvtt 



(joes 



notp 



ff 



fee* 



Sect. XL 3 



AND WATERING 



2 



3 



fedly ripen 



I have oblerved it to be agreeable to the palate both 



in 



ftate, and when dry 



If thefe ihould not fuccced, other quick-growing plants niight be 

 Itivated for manures, as typha, cat's-tail, caltha, and others; which 



d in confe 



ihould be mowed twice a year, while they are young, ai 



quence abound with faccharine and tilA.cilagino.as matter ready to pafs 



iil'to fermentation. • 1 j 



The advantao;es refulting from occafionally covering lands 



111. I. 



Ill, 1. X i.l'^ a^»"**w^^ ^ 



y,\ih witer have long been experienced in warmer countries. 



as in 



Eo-ypt, Italy, and many parts of Ch 



d have of late years been 



troduc'ed in'to our own more northern climates. The great import^ 



f vegetation has already been 



f much 



th 



P 



refs 



And in the warm climates above men 



" cultivation of rice for the pur 



fpoken of in Section X. 3. 



tioned, it is particularly \ifeful in the cultivatu 



pofe perhaps of (imply moiftening the ground. 



But the advantages of flooding meadow-lands in this country may 

 ■be divided principally into three kinds, one of which confifts in fim- 



ply moiftening them, which feems to be 



principal life of 



as in warm countries, where the water is derived to them al 



/ 



moft every evening 



from 



fervoirs above them, or from water- 



sheds worked by affes, and which is fometimes done in the gardens 

 of this country by watering pans and human labour. 



The fecond and greater advantage of flooding lands in this cli- 

 mate conflfls in deriving much water over them from rivers or from 



flrong fp 



d by thus fupplying them 



ith the muddy fed 



ment brouglit down by rivers, after fudden rains, or with th 



earth diffolved 



any fp 



All thofe fp 



& 



w 



pafs through 



Ik. or other limefton 



are 



plete 



th 



calcareous earth ; which they hold in folution, as thofe about Derby 



d about Matlock, which earth 



they dcpofit on (landing on the 



flowly trickl 



it. S 

 Nn 



Sea. X. 6 



And river 



water 



