t 



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3'i, 



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u:.a K 



ire 



> 



jexpe. 



'J 



htabo 



undi 



P^nment 



uns for 



I!) 



Soil 



many 



^'^len clear of 



palTes by 



It 



'ithit. Nei. 

 rvicc for this 



late is for the 

 :er or vernal 



hich 



rings, w 



IS 



7' 



preferable 

 fince the 



i 



nofpherc 

 _ they (o^^ ^ 



; roots of the 

 ^eferved, an^ 

 ,th the ice, as 



degree 



der 



^ In a 



of the uii 



tb e co^ 



.noil 



jrw 





* 



Sect, XI. 3. 2 



AND WATERING. 



275 



"^ 



of the year, if well managed 



and 



as almoft to double the produa 

 careftdly attended to. 



The method of forming the channels to convey the water confifts 



the firft or principal aqueduft along the higheft part of 



ry 



the meadow, and deriving others on the fummits of the land 

 meadow has formerly been ploughed into ridges and 



f 



r. 



A.n are u) be divaricated fo as to pals into the fu 



D 



vs, thefe 

 all thefe 



t 



branches of the ftream are again to be 



and difcharged at the lowed part of the furfa 



fted from the furr 



S 



fc 



!t 



ff. th 



.- fimilar to this muft be managed on more level grounds, 

 dtid the water over the whole meadow, and alfo to carry 



f water 



but that a moving fli 



about 



it may not Itagnate ; uui lucil d uiuviu^^ li.v.^. w. ...... 



ch in depth may continually flow over the whole for th 



purpofe of depofiting the materials diffolved or diffufed 

 ronftruaion and width of thefe channels, with many ufeful obf^ 



Th 



{hewn in a pamphlet of Mr. T. Wright 



the Art of 



Floating Land in Gloucefterfli 



. Mr.Wright in the 



^» 



Scatcherd. Lond 



fe above mentioned advifes, that th 



rmath of grafs land fhould be eaten off bare by the beginning of 



No^vember, an^d that the channels for conduding the water to and 



d that 



from the meadows fhould be th 



leanfed and repaired 



th 



water 



(liould be fuffcred to flow 



the meadow for th 



weeks 



d that then the land 



ht to be expofed 



for a 



■ 



few days ; fmce fome of the gralTes, and thofe of the moft 

 kinds, she believes will not much longer exifl under w — 



arly preparation, he add 



floods, w 



> 



hich bring along with them 



By this 



■ 



of the autumnal 

 greater quantity of putref- 



matter than thofe of 



In the months of December and January Mr.Wright adds, that the 

 chief care of the floater confifts in keeping the land (heltered by the 

 water from the feverity of frofty nights ; but advifes through the 

 whole of thefe months every ten or fourteen days to expofe the land 



N 



to 



