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Of the Manner of working to raife a Pond-Head. 
No W, as for the manner of raifing this bank, which I think 
is the only chargeable work you have, I fhall give fome light 
into the way of working, fo as to abridge the expence as much 
as may be. The advantage of trades, is, that by continual ex- 
perience, they find nearer ways of doing things, {pending fewer 
ftrokes, and lefs time, than others can. And in the condu& 
of this work, there is much to be faved; every man’s reafon 
leads him to contrive compendiums of bufinefs, as 1 have done 
in the difpofition of my waters; which experience of mine 
may fave others the thought, as well as lofs by making their 
own experiments. 
When you have projected your work, for which the latter 
end of June, or the beginning of May, is the beft time, take 
the afliftance of your neighbours, and. provide yourfelf with 
fix tumbrels, four good horfes, and two ftout labourers, befides. 
the driver to each pair of tumbrels. I call them pairs, becaufe 
they work alternately with the fame horfes; fo that one is 
filling, while the other is moving, and your labourers, as well. 
as horfes, are always at work. 
The firft work to be done, is, the taking up the firft fpit of 
earth where the bank is to be, and from the pan of the pond). 
and to lay it by for the ufes I fhall declare hereafter. 
Then lay down your fluice, with trunks fufficient to convey 
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