S6 The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner, 



in a more full light than it has hitherto 

 appear d. 



0/ pUcei The * antients have intimated , that 

 far water. ^y|-^^|;ever the twig, withy-fleabane, reeds, 

 trefoyle, pond-grafs, and the bull-rufh 

 are found> there water may be had 5 and 

 tell us that by digging a hole and put- 

 ting in a veffel, either of lead or earth, 

 and hanging thereon a piece of wool, 

 that by the quantity of moifture that 

 afcends and lodges in the fame, you 

 may there difcover if there be any wa- 

 ter. Other methods for difcovering of 

 water (fays the afore- mentioned author) 

 are by obferving of the foil 5 if it be 

 black, and full of pebbles, of a black or 

 yellowifh colour, there you need not 

 fear the want of water, efpecially if the 

 ground be foft, moift and moory : And 

 the fame may be faid of fuch foil as has 

 a mixture of clay, loam and pebbles, and 

 on which rulhes, or any other aquatic, 

 as alder, ^r. grow 5 and where they 

 grow in greateft abundance, there you 

 o/?^erWwill find the largeft fprings. 

 and ba A black and deep foil produces the 

 ^Tam!\nd^^^'^ durable and ftrongeft waters, but 



Tohzt foils 



are the befi * y]d, CmnnmSi de agricultur, lib. 2. ^.4. />. 27, 



to produce 



shem. thofe 



