cut the turf in liis trenches , and likewife cut his own fo^ 
for this is juft fo much gain, and prevents that pitting of 
Bogs, tho,t renders them deformed & pernicious to Cattle. 
dthly Where a Bog is pitted, he is to cut a paffage from 
one pit to the next for the water, and fo make a com- 
munication to the common drain, and ii his pits be 
once dr) ed there will grow grafs or heath at the bottom^ 
fit for grafing; and they will be flielter for Cattle in 
ftorms. 
7thly When his is dryed, it is thereby made bet- 
ter turf: and then he is to fetout a part of it for that ufe, 
and to oblige them to cut it clear away ; and the Bog be- 
ing removed, the bottom will make good meddow : as I 
have feen in the County of Lo?igford, 
Stilly if he would improve his Bog any further then 
grafing; he muft do it either by cutting oif the furface 
of the Bog and burning it, or elfe by bringing Earth and 
laying on it: Sanding or rather indeed Gravelling is- 
a great improvement in this country^ the land' fo ma- 
nured will bring corn 12 or 14 years, and would bring 
grafs, if People did not Flow it fo long, as to confumeall 
thefubftance of it, and deitroy the roots of the grafs,^ 
which are not to be recovered in many years, and then 
they fay gravelling is bad for grafs j but the contrary 
is apparent, eipecially in ^fi»]^/. I have obferved by the 
way fide where thofe way s pafs thro' Bogs^ if a li ttle Earth 
hath fallen on the 56»;^, as lome times there doth fall a 
little of that which they bring to mend the high way, 
it has turned the Bog into a green lod, with a very fine 
kutch grafs on it : and I doubt not but the fame charges, 
that Sands or Gravels land, would reduce a dryed Bog-^ 
even to be arable; but this requires time and experience^, 
which I doubt not but will find out many compendious 
and eaiy methods of performing theie things, more then 
wecan thinkof. ....w i ^ 
Twere naturall to add' fome thing eoncetning Loughs, 
and 
