NEW, EASY, CHEAP, EFFECTUAL, 



AND 



PROFITABLE METHOD 



OF DRAINING AND IMPROVING, 

 BY CROPPING, &c. 



THE BOGS, FENS, AND MARSHES, OF IRELAND. 



The draining of Bogs, &c. every where, but parti- 

 cularly in Ireland, has occupied the pen and the judg- 

 ment of almost all classes of society and rank in lifej 

 for many years many volumes have been written on the 

 subject, and plans proposed, but all of them have had in- 

 surmountable barriers to encounter. To many of such 

 bogs no free level can be got, without driving through 

 hills and other proprietors' property, for miles, and such 

 like difficulties, which would incur such an expense as 

 is altogether a prohibition ; it is to obviate these in- 

 surmountable difficulties that I now come forward, 

 with this, my novel scheme, but, although novelty 

 may be wrote on its forehead, yet it is both practical 

 and practicable. To those who have read, or are the 

 least acquainted with what I have already wrote, I 

 beg to say this much for myself, that I never have 

 yet brought forward to the public any new scheme, 

 without first having so far put it into practice, as to 

 put its utility beyond the power of fair contradiction. 

 I most readily admit that I have tried many plans and 



