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• and T^r loughs : the naturall improvement of i^^aj^^j*, or 
lakes, is firft to drain them as low as we caa ; and then 
turn the refidue of the water into fifli-ponds,by planting 
a few Trees about them, and ordering them thus they 
may be made both ufefull, and ornamental! . 
As to thofe places we CdXlTurloughs ,quaji Terreni lacus^ 
or land-lakes ; they anfwer the name very well, being 
lakes one part of the year of confiderable depth ^ and 
very fmooth fields the reft : if my memory dos not fail 
me, Dodlor Brown defcribes exadlly the like in Hungary ^ 
or elfe in the way between Vienna & Venice ; there are in 
thefe, holes out of which the water rifeth m winter, and 
goeth away towards Summer, many hundred acres being 
drowned by them ; and thofe the moO; pleafant, and pro- 
fitable land in the country : the foil is commonly a marl , 
which, by its ftiffnefs, hinders the water from turningit 
intoaj?fl'^; andimmediatly when the water is gone, it 
hardens, fo that you ride thro' an even grafsy fieldi thefe, 
if they could be drained would be fit for any ufe ; would 
make meddow or bear any grain, but efpecially rape , 
which is very profitable. They are chiefly mi.onna^ughti 
ai?d their caufe is obvious enough^ it is a ftoniy hilly 
Countrey ; the hils have cavitys in them, through which 
the water pafTes : it is common to have a rivulet fink on 
one fide of a hill, and rife a mUe^ or half a mile, from the 
plaice : the brooks are generally dry iii Sfommox i thewiaw-^ 
ter that fhoiild be in them, jinking betweeit' the Rocksi^ 
and running under ground ; in fo much as that infome 
places where they are overflowed in winter, they are 
forced in Summer to fend theirC^ttle many miles for wa- 
ter. There is one plac;e on a hill near Tmm between two 
of thek T^r loughs, where there is ahole the fuperftitious 
People call the Divels Milh and make fables concerning 
it : if you ftand by this place, yon will hear a great noife^ 
like that of a water under a bridge : where there is a flood 
in winter, Qnp. qfl th^ T/^r/fl^^^i" overflows, and vents it 
