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repeat it ; 

 ^ t^ian thofi 

 have obferved 

 'f annual v 



'S in fearch of 

 ment of their 

 , and are after- 

 jent dry wea- 



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e, which were 



fometi rr.es in- 



I June to fome 



one iiigbt wi' 



1 w:.s pro 



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fome cot' 



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an 



a (hot 



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more pi" 



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Sect. XI. j. 5. 



AND Wx\TEPJNG, 



2C1 



neceffary a6livlty of the fydem occafioned' by continued 





1- 



iL 



or 



great exercife. See Sed. XIV 



Nor is there reafon to fuppofe that to whatever extent this mode of 

 cultivation of grafs could be carried in this country, that any injurious 

 efFeds m refped to the health of the inhabitants could be produced ; 

 as this mode of flooding is not by fiagnant w 

 vi^hich D. A. J. Cavanilles, who has la 



t) 



ds 



) has lately publi(hed a work ( 

 ultivation of rice in the kingdom of Valencia, believes to be inj 



the health of the inhabit 



In thefe cold 



Magaz. Encyclop. T 





imates the vicinity of 



o 



ftreams may per 



haps be rather falubrious than the contrary ; as the air is cooled in hot 



weather, and warmed in cold weather, 



by its contad with their 



changing furfaces, till they become frozen 



I 



this moment 



recoiled many, who lived to an healthy old age in the valley of the 

 Trent near the very edge of the water, whofe names I could repeat. 

 But ftagnate waters, from which putrid exhalations arife, produce 



gues in cold countries, as in the fens of Lincolnfh 



hot 



from which 



d putrid fe 



armies fufFered fo much 



St 



Lucia both in the prefent and the laft war. 



5. This pradice of flooding is capable of being extended to a won- 

 derful degree in this country, not only by ufmg the natural falls of 

 brooks and fprings, and by occafionally damming them up to fupply 



" Jations ; and by effedually fpreading the land-floods from 



higher fit 



accidental fhowers over th 



fe 



land 



to a great extent. 



And 



la%, the water, which is now dammed up to fupply the numerous 

 mills, might be difFufed in rills over a thoufand meadows, or part of 

 it be raifed by pumps to higher ground 



d thus fertilize and 



h the country; while the grinding of corn, fpinnino- of 



bars 



d other mech 



wind-m 



fleam 



t) 



in 



For this purpofe likewife the new method of raifi 



purpofes, might be eiFeded by 

 mod every part of the ifland. 



water by th 



quired momentum of moving flreams might be well 



° applied, 



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