By way of making ourselves more parti- 
cularly understood, we shall take the liberty 
of enlarging upon some of the foregoing 
heads, but not with the presumptive view of 
adding to your Lordship's stock of' know- 
ledge ; a more accurate investigation of them 
would be an infringement of your Lordship's 
province. 
By means of the prescriptive rights and 
privileges of the Crown in some cases, and 
of particular individuals in others, the drain- 
age of one parish or distridl into the sea 
or river, whilst ' lands higher up and lower 
down remain in an unimproved state, is 
often, when sandfioned by legislative autho- 
rity, very injurious, and produdfiveof incon- 
veniences past remedy, unless the proprie- 
tors can be induced to adopt well digested 
general plans for the improvement of the 
whole. 
To class and divide large distridfs under 
tlie particular* heads of improvement, of 
which they are capable, and to induce the 
respedfive proprietors to incorporate them- 
